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Its story

In Camelopardalis, the modest northern giraffe, shines a yellow G-type star, a distant sister of the Sun yet far more luminous. Its light took some 280 years to reach us: it set out around 1745, when Bach was composing his final works and Europe was deep in the Age of Enlightenment. It is a golden solar echo crossing a forgotten corner of the northern sky.