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Its story

Toward the bow of Sagittarius gleams an orange K-type star, surprisingly close: barely twenty light-years lie between us. Its light departed when the first iPhone was being released and the world was learning to carry the internet in its pocket. Cooler and humbler than the Sun, it looks like a household ember hung at the edge of our own cosmic street. To gaze at it is to remember how young the era we live in really is.