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Its story

It dwells in Cepheus, the northern constellation that quietly circles the celestial pole, about 336 light years away. Its light set out around 1690, when John Flamsteed was charting the sky from Greenwich and Locke was publishing his treatises on human understanding. A G-type star, a close cousin of the Sun in color and temperature, carrying a familiar, recognisable gold. Its kindly glow seems to extend, into the deep north, the idea of a serene solar light.