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Its story

Cassiopeia is one of the most recognisable figures in the northern sky, and among its lesser points glows this yellow star — a close sibling in colour and temperature to our Sun. Its light took about 517 years to arrive: it set out when the kingdoms of Castile and Aragon were uniting under the Catholic Monarchs and caravels were preparing to cross the ocean for the first time. This yellow sun, still young in cosmic terms, still burns with the same calm chemistry that sustains life on planets like ours.