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Its story

In the northern giraffe of Camelopardalis glows this white A-type star. Its light set out around 363 years ago, near 1663, when James Gregory designed the first reflecting telescope and opened the door to a new way of looking at the sky. Hotter and brighter than the Sun, it offers a vivid, youthful white. Its constellation, drawn by Plancius in 1612, occupies a sky nearly mute of bright stars, in whose silence each star, like this one, gains a leading role.