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Its story

In Cepheus, the constellation shaped like a crooked house facing the celestial north pole, shines a yellow G-type star slightly hotter and more luminous than the Sun. Its light crosses space for around 237 years: what we receive today departed about 1789, while the Bastille was falling in Paris and the French Revolution was beginning. Cepheus, the legendary king of Ethiopia in Greek mythology, watches over that quiet stretch of the northern sky.