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Its story

33 Sagittarii is a luminous yellow G-type star roughly 1,639 light-years away, in a stretch of Sagittarius rich in clusters and nebulae crossed by the Milky Way. Although its spectral class recalls the Sun, its luminosity and distance reveal a much larger, far more evolved body. The light arriving tonight set out in the heart of the Middle Ages, before the printing press was invented and many European universities had even been founded.