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Its story

26 Cygni —also known as e Cygni— is a yellow-hued K-type sun burning quietly within the Swan's plumage, beside the bright corridor of the summer Milky Way. At magnitude 5.06 it sits on the threshold of unaided vision under truly dark skies. Its light, released more than four centuries ago, crossed the orbit of Cygnus X-1 and the gases of the North America Nebula before reaching the pupil of anyone who looks up tonight.