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Its story

6 Ursae Majoris is a yellow G-type star roughly 307 light-years away, in the western reaches of Ursa Major, well away from the famous Plough asterism. It shines at magnitude 5.57 —right at the edge of naked-eye visibility under truly dark skies—. Light it emitted around 1719, in the heart of the European Enlightenment, is only now reaching Earth: a reminder that every starlight is a postcard centuries late.