Phi

Its story

Phi Ursae Majoris lodges within the body of the Great Bear, away from the Big Dipper's curve but inside the full silhouette of the ancient celestial plantigrade. It is a white A-type star some 509 light-years away, hotter and more luminous than the Sun. Its subdued glow weaves through the stars that sketch the animal's foreleg, where the trained eye finds the forgotten outline of the constellation entire.