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Its story

3 Camelopardalis shines with K-type orange light some 423 light-years away, in the quiet constellation of the Giraffe. At magnitude 5.07, the eye only senses it from dark skies, in a region poor in famed luminaries but rich in silence. Here, between the Great Bear and the Charioteer, the Giraffe stretches across a broad swath of the northern circumpolar sky, and this orange giant adds a warm note to its modest mosaic.