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Its story

In Cassiopeia shines a yellow-white F-type star whose light set out around the year 736, when the Christian kingdoms of the northern Iberian peninsula were beginning their long reconquest. Hotter and more luminous than the Sun, its glow is not entirely steady and oscillates with a barely perceptible pulse. Almost thirteen centuries of travel to deposit this trembling flash within the most recognisable W in the northern sky.