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Its story

It dwells in Cepheus, the constellation of the Ethiopian king whose stars rise toward the north celestial pole. Its yellow light, proper to G-class stars like our Sun, has been crossing space for nearly a thousand years —it set out when Castile had just been founded as an independent kingdom and Romanesque monasteries were rising across the northern peninsula. More luminous than the Sun, it turns slowly near the axis of the boreal sky, woven into that region which never sets for observers in northern Spain.