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Its story

11 Comae Berenices is a yellow G-type star, a spectral cousin of the Sun but swollen into a giant. It resides in Berenice's Hair, the modest constellation that gathers the locks offered by a Ptolemaic queen for her husband's safe return. Its light, emitted nearly three centuries ago, crosses a region of sky famed for harbouring thousands of distant galaxies.