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Its story

About 111 light-years away, in Cygnus, it shines with the yellowish-white tone of class F stars, somewhat hotter than the Sun. Its light set out in the early years of the twentieth century, when the Wright brothers had just lifted off the ground at Kitty Hawk and Einstein was quietly preparing the manuscripts that would change physics. It is a discreet, stable star, with no known variability or companion, one of so many anonymous suns to which the milky glow of the Milky Way is owed.