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Its story

6 Ceti is a yellow-white F8 sun in Cetus, just 61 light-years away from us. It carries 12 percent more mass than our own Sun and is about 4.2 billion years old —slightly younger, almost a cosmic sibling born in another corner of the same galactic neighbourhood. To watch it from a truly dark sky is to catch light that began its journey toward Earth during the early years of the Cold War.