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Its story

Within the long neck of Cygnus, 51.7 light-years away, shines a yellow G-type star almost twin to the Sun. Its light set out around 1974, when the Helios probe was being launched to approach our star more closely than anything before. It shares colour and temperature with our Sun, and astronomers have found planets in its surroundings, reminding us how many systems already inhabit our neighbourhood.