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Its story

24 Cephei is a G-type star nearly 395 light-years away, set into the angular silhouette of King Cepheus —high and circumpolar across much of the northern sky. It shares the Sun's spectral class but shines with the enlarged luminosity of a giant in a later chapter of its life. The light arriving tonight left around 1630, drifting through the diffuse haze of the Milky Way's arctic corner.