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Its story

In Cassiopeia, the queen seated on her celestial throne, an orange K-type dwarf shines just 21 light-years away, in the Sun s immediate neighborhood. Its light set out in 2005, the same year YouTube was first launched and the world was learning to tell itself in short videos. Cooler and smaller than the Sun, it hosts a planetary system detected by modern techniques — a quiet, intensely studied star.