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Its story

Near the celestial north pole, where the skys rotation is barely felt, shines this white A-type star in Cepheus. Its light left the mythical king around 286 years ago, near 1740, when Linnaeus was publishing his systems to name nature and reorder the chaos of living things. Hotter and brighter than the Sun, it displays the pure white of young, energetic stars. Its circumpolar position makes it faithful: it never sets, always appearing above the north.