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The family lore was that we’ve had it ever since it was ejected from a star-forming gas cloud, but it seems more likely that my great-grandparents probably just bought it while on vacation in the galactic thin disk.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3281/
See also: OBAFGKM and stellar magnitudes