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Its story

Yellow and discreet in Cepheus, the circumpolar constellation that never sets for northern observers. Its light has been crossing space for 405 years —it departed around 1621, when Kepler published his Epitome Astronomiae Copernicanae and consolidated the heliocentric model. A G-type giant, an old cousin of the Sun, burning the same warm colour at far greater scale.