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Its story

56 Ursae Majoris is a yellow G-type giant, an elder sibling of the Sun, sitting 533 light-years out in the region of the Bear. If our own Sun aged a few more billion years, it might look like this: swollen, cooler, brighter, already past the peak of its nuclear life. Its light set out in the late fifteenth century, when Columbus's ships had not yet touched land on the far side of the Atlantic.