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Its story

High in Cepheus, this orange star spreads a warm, steady glow — an amber flame that has long since left behind the blue impatience of younger suns. Its light set out about 280 years ago, when European encyclopedists were trying to gather every human discipline into bound volumes. Cooler than our Sun yet more generous in girth, it hangs near the celestial pole like a lantern keeping watch over the slow turning of the northern sky.