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Its story

In the Great Bear, just 78 light-years away, shines this yellow-white type F star. Its light set out around 1947, when the transistor was being invented and the silent revolution leading to modern electronics began. Slightly hotter and more luminous than the Sun, its pale golden tone slips between the stars of the most recognisable chariot in the northern sky —close on a cosmic scale, discreet to the eye.