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Its story

In the luminous river of Cygnus, deep in the Milky Way, burns a yellow-white star at 1,204 light-years. Its light departed when Charlemagne was being crowned emperor in Rome and a new political order was taking shape at the heart of Europe. It is a luminous F class star, hotter and brighter than the Sun, lost among countless neighbors in one of the most densely populated regions of the northern night sky.