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Its story

About 362 light years away, in the northern region of Cepheus —near the axis around which the northern sky turns— shines a yellow G-type star, a distant cousin of the Sun. Its light departed around 1664, when Cassini was observing Jupiter's Great Red Spot and European astronomy was accelerating its maturity. With a temperate temperature and a pale golden tone, it shares with our daytime star that spectral family which sows the universe with balanced suns. Its closeness to the northern celestial pole gives it a position almost always visible to boreal observers.