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Its story

In the constellation Sagittarius, pointing toward the heart of our galaxy, shines this yellow G-type star, a distant sister of the Sun lying nearly four hundred light years away. Its light departed around 1629, during the Spanish Golden Age, the same year Velázquez set out on his first journey to Italy to study the great Venetian masters. Warm and golden like our own star, it shines surrounded by the dense stellar throng adorning the galactic river.