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Its story

5 Ursae Majoris is a yellow-white F-type star lying some two hundred and ninety light-years away, in the constellation that hosts the famous Big Dipper asterism. Slightly hotter and brighter than the Sun, its light set out when the first pendulum clocks were beginning to mark time across Europe. Though it stands far from the seven best-known stars of the Dipper, it shares with them the circumpolar region forever visible from northern latitudes.