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Its story

59 Ursae Majoris is a yellow-white F-type star in the great Bear, slightly hotter than the Sun. About 152 light-years away, its light left around 1874, when the transit of Venus was mobilising astronomical expeditions across the planet. It lives near the quadrilateral of the Plough but off to the side, one of those stars only discovered when the eye stops chasing the obvious ones.