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Its story

It lives in Camelopardalis, the celestial giraffe, a constellation so faint that for centuries it went unnoticed until Plancius drew it in the 17th century. A white A-type star, hotter and brighter than the Sun, its light set out some 347 years ago —as Newton was finishing his «Principia Mathematica» and formulating the law of universal gravitation. A serene glimmer between the giraffe's long legs.