Talitha

Its story

Talitha is a white class-A star resting just 47.3 light-years away, a close neighbour set in the foreleg of the Great Bear. Its full name, «al-qafzah al-thalithah», means «the third leap» in Arabic, and once belonged to an old asterism imagining a gazelle fleeing and leaving leaping prints across the sky. Few traditionally named stars sit this near to the solar system: its light reaches us in less than a human lifetime.