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Its story

In Aquila, the eagle that crosses the summer sky, glows a yellow G-type star, a distant sister of the Sun but more luminous, already settled into maturity. Its light takes around 692 years to arrive: what we see today departed in the early fourteenth century, when Dante was finishing the Divine Comedy and the guilds of Florence were raising stone cathedrals. Aquila still flies over the Milky Way as it did then.