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Its story

99 Herculis is one of the closest stars in the Hercules catalogue: barely 51 light-years away, near enough that a beam of light could complete the trip within a single human life. It is a yellow-white F-type star, a touch hotter and brighter than the Sun. The glow that paints it now in the sky was born around 1975 —the era of Apollo-Soyuz— and has watched the whole modern space age unfold along its way.