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Its story

45 Aquilae is a white A-type star about 352 light-years away, inside the Eagle that spreads its wings along the summer Milky Way. Its bluish-white light points to a young, hot surface, and though unobtrusive to the unaided eye in the city, it is embedded in one of the sky's richest regions, crossed by dark nebulae, crowded star fields and distant globular clusters.