Adhafera

Its story

Adhafera, in Leo's mane, takes its name from the Arabic «al-ḍafīrah», «the braid», for its place among the stars tracing the lion's curls. It is a yellow-white star 274 light-years away, a mature giant whose light crosses space for nearly three centuries before reaching us: it set out before the first reasonably accurate map of the Pacific had even been drawn.