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Its story

Across the northern plains of Camelopardalis — the celestial giraffe traced in the seventeenth century — dwells an orange K-type star, surprisingly luminous despite its apparent discretion. Its 2,052 light-years set out even before the founding of Augustus's Roman Empire, when Rome was still a republic shaken by civil wars. It is light born of the ancient world, still in transit toward us.