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Its story

22 Aquilae glows some 537 light-years away, a white A-type star settled in the body of the Eagle, beside the Milky Way's summer current. Hotter and more luminous than the Sun, its crystalline light stands out even among the dense star fields that stud the region. The beam now reaching the observer set out toward the end of the fifteenth century, in the years a new sea route to the Indies was being discovered.