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Its story

On the flank of Hercules burns this yellow G-type star, a distant cousin of the Sun lying two hundred fifty-nine light years away. Its light set out around 1767, when James Watt was perfecting his steam engine in Birmingham and planting the engine of the Industrial Revolution. Warm and golden like the star that lights our days, it reminds us with its familiar tone that most yellow stars share with us an intimate history of nuclear fusion and steady light.