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Its story

16 Lyrae inhabits the modest but exquisite triangle of Lyra, the constellation dominated by brilliant Vega. It is a white A-type star with a surface roughly twice as hot as the Sun's, and its light takes just one hundred and twenty-two years to reach Earth —a near journey by stellar standards. Its crisp, cool tone makes it a quiet companion to Vega across the summer nights of the north.