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Its story

In Cassiopeia, the queen seated on her celestial throne, burns this white-yellow F-type star, extraordinarily luminous, a true supergiant. Its light set out 3,077 years ago, around the 11th century BCE, when the peoples of the eastern Mediterranean were rebuilding their world after the Late Bronze Age collapse. Though faint to the naked eye, its intrinsic brilliance surpasses the Sun's a thousandfold: distance dissolves every trace of its grandeur.