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Its story

36 Camelopardalis burns about 715 light-years away in the vast, understated Giraffe, a constellation drafted by Bartsch in 1624 between Cassiopeia and the Great Bear. An orange K-type star, cooler than the Sun yet too far to do more than peek at the eye. Its light has been travelling for seven centuries: it set off as Marco Polo was returning to Venice from the court of Kublai Khan.