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Its story

In the Great Bear, the constellation that for centuries guided peasants and sailors, shines an orange K-type star, cooler than the Sun and warm in hue. Its glow travels around 453 years to reach us: what arrives today set out about 1572, just as Tycho Brahe was discovering the Cassiopeia supernova that demolished the Aristotelian notion of an immutable sky. This star, far from the spotlight, has been burning patiently since those days.