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Its story

In the Great Bear, Ursa Major, shines an orange type-K star 360 light-years away. Its light departed in the seventeenth century, when Velázquez was born in Seville and the Spanish Golden Age reached its zenith. Cooler than the Sun yet more luminous, its copper glow shines with the calm of mature giants —a patient flame that has crossed three centuries to settle upon the back of the celestial bear.