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Its story

On the neck of Camelopardalis shines an orange K-type giant, cast more than 1,460 light-years away. Its light began its journey around the year 563, deep in the early Middle Ages, when Irish copyist monks were illuminating the first gospel books. It is tens of times more luminous than the Sun, a warm beacon whose swollen, calm envelope has crossed fourteen centuries to arrive.