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Its story

In Ursa Major, that familiar figure of the northern sky, a yellow G-type star recalls the Sun, though from 320 light-years away. Its light departed around 1706, in the heart of Louis XIV's reign at Versailles, while the War of the Spanish Succession was reshaping Europe's political map. Three centuries later, that yellow glow slips between the bear's paws and arrives here.