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Its story

In Pavo —a southern constellation first mapped by European navigators in the sixteenth century— this yellow G-type star shines. Its light set out around 1904, when the Wright brothers were testing their first powered flights in North Carolina. At 122 light-years away, it sits in a nearby cosmic neighbourhood: we are looking at a different Sun, but one from the same family as the star that warms us each morning.