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Its story

26 Cephei is a blue supergiant of B type set in Cepheus, the Ethiopian king and father of Andromeda in Greek myth. Its surface hovers near twenty thousand kelvin and it radiates with an intensity that places it among the hottest stars the human eye can perceive from Earth. It shines in a northern circumpolar region where the sky never quite shuts down completely, close to the summer track of the Milky Way.