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Its story

In Ursa Major, a distant neighbour of the Plough, shines an F-type yellow-white star. Its light set out one hundred and sixty-six years ago, when photography was beginning to fix landscapes and faces onto silver plates, around 1860. Slightly hotter than the Sun, it sheds that clear, almost pale-gold tone proper to F stars. It is a warm, discreet note among the more recognisable lights of the great bear, present every night for those who know how to look beyond the Plough and find what lies behind it.