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Its story

2 Camelopardalis belongs to a late constellation, drawn in 1612 by Plancius to fill a void in the polar sky. It is a white A-type star about 145 light-years away: its light left around 1881, the year the first public telegraph for image transmission was being published. Discreet, cool to the eye, it travels along the long neck of the celestial giraffe like a luminous point almost forgotten.