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Its story

60 Ceti is a white A-class star anchored in the diffuse body of the celestial Whale, 281 light-years off. Its atmosphere, much hotter than the Sun's, prints a clean bluish tone on its glow, barely perceptible to the naked eye at magnitude 5.42. When that light set out around the mid-18th century, European astronomy had just discovered stellar aberration and was beginning to survey the sky with new instruments.