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Its story

In the W-shaped chair of Cassiopeia keeps watch a yellow sun, a G-type star slightly larger than ours whose light began its journey 256 years ago. When it set out, European workshops were refining the first steam engines that would reshape the world. At that distance, its glow reaches us already ancient, having crossed a century and a half of human history before touching the retina of anyone looking northward tonight.