hip-8404

Its story

Another yellow G-class star, this time swimming among the fish of Pisces, 321 light-years away. The light arriving tonight broke free around 1705, the year Halley published his prediction of the cometary return and forever bound his name to a celestial visitor. Familiar and modest, it belongs to the Sun's spectral lineage—but it burned when ours still sewed coats with whalebone.