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θ Ursae Majoris is a quiet neighbor: at 44 light-years, its yellow-white glow takes barely a human lifetime to reach us. An F-class star slightly hotter and younger than the Sun, it follows the Great Bear without belonging to the inner asterism of the Plough. Through binoculars on a clear night it shines with the steady calm of nearby suns — the ones the cosmos keeps almost within arm's reach.