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Its story

66 Aquilae is an orange ember in the Eagle, a K-class star visible to the naked eye under clean skies but lost in the wash when light pollution closes in. Its class places it among the cooler, calmer yellow-red giants, gentler than the Sun. The light now landing on the retina crossed seven hundred years of dark: it set out around 1325, during the Black Death that ravaged Europe.