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Its story

17 Cygni is a relatively close neighbour, just 69 light-years away within the body of the Swan. Its F-type spectrum runs a touch hotter than the Sun's, and at magnitude 5 it forms a subtle but perceptible spark on clear nights along the Milky Way's band. The light reaching us tonight set out in the late 1950s, when the first satellites were just beginning to leave Earth's atmosphere.