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Its story

4 Camelopardalis is an A-type white star in the Giraffe, that modern, skeletal constellation filling the gap between the Great Bear and Cassiopeia. At 172 light-years, it shines with the clean, almost bluish light of hot, young stars. The Giraffe was drawn in the seventeenth century by Petrus Plancius so as not to leave the northern polar sky blank; here, this little blue spotlight forms part of its improvised silhouette.