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Its story

Just 72 light years away in the Eagle, this yellow-white F-type star shines at magnitude 5.87. Its light set out around 1953, the year Watson and Crick described the double helix of DNA in Cambridge. Being relatively close, its light is almost contemporary, and it represents one of those modest but intimate neighbours of the solar environment, where the catalogue of known stars thickens and distances become surprisingly human.