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Its story

It belongs to Aquila, the eagle that in classical mythology snatched Ganymede to bear him to Olympus. Its yellow-white tone enrols it among the F-class stars, slightly hotter than the Sun. Its light set out around 183 years ago, when Charles Babbage was designing his analytical engine in London, the conceptual ancestor of the modern computer. It shines steadily, without abrupt variation, adding one more bead to the outline of the celestial eagle, which spreads its wings across the northern summer sky.