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Its story

5 Comae Berenices sits in that soft spring constellation, the hair Berenice offered to the gods for her husband's safe return. It is an orange K-type giant about 425 light-years away: its light left around the 16th century, when Cervantes was living his most productive years. In the middle of the faint swarm of the tresses, this star contributes a golden gleam among countless white pinpricks.