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Its story

Vulpecula is a small, discreet constellation tucked between Cygnus and Sagitta, in one of the most populated regions of the northern Milky Way. There glows this orange star — colder than our Sun but larger — whose light took about 198 years to arrive. It set out when nineteenth-century astronomers like Bessel and Henderson were finally managing to measure the first distance to a star via parallax. Today that light seems to honour that moment when the sky stopped being out of reach.