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Its story

In the altar of Ara, in the southern hemisphere, a yellow G-type star shines 986 light-years away. Its light set out in the heart of the Middle Ages, when the first universities were rising in Bologna and Paris. Like the Sun in colour and temperature, it is a distant sister whose glow resembles the dawn. To behold its light is to contemplate a golden noon that travelled almost a millennium to reach us on a southern night.