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Its story

70 Ursae Majoris glows 636 light-years away inside Ursa Major, not among the seven famous stars of the Plough but a little farther south, in a quieter region of the constellation. It is a K-class orange giant with a radius around forty times that of the Sun, an immense surface pouring out hundreds of solar luminosities into the surrounding void. It is drifting steadily toward us at over forty kilometres per second.