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61 Cygni comparison table

Subject	is part of	is a kind of	is an instance of	has definition	has distance
high proper motion star		high-velocity star
61 Cygni	Cygnus		high proper motion star	The first star other than the Sun to have its parallax, and hence distance, measured. The star is a double orange dwarf.	11.4 light-years

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