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Its story

7 Sagittarii is a yellow-white F-type star burning at more than a thousand light-years, looking onto the archer that aims toward the center of the Milky Way. Its glow crosses precisely the densest stretch of the galactic disk, with billions of suns concentrated toward the core. Every photon arriving tonight departed around the year 950, when the Andalusian caliphates were lighting European astronomy.