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Its story

In the rarefied Camelopardalis, the silent giraffe of the northern sky, burns a hot blue star some 446 light-years away. Its light set out around 1580, when Drake was returning to Plymouth after circumnavigating the globe and the seas were ceasing to be an imagined map. Its surface, thousands of degrees above the Sun's, casts a cold radiance that cuts the darkness like a blade.