Why does printing a pointer print the same thing as printing the dereferenced pointer?

Question

From the Rust guide:

To dereference (get the value being referred to rather than the reference itself) y, we use the asterisk (*

Answer 1

fn main() {
 let x = &42;
 let address = format!("{:p}", x); // this produces something like '0x7f06092ac6d0'
 println!("{}", address);
}