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Its story

9 Draconis is a remote orange giant, 625 light-years away, coiled along the long body of the Dragon that winds between the two Bears. Spotting it means tracing one of the largest constellations of the northern sky, one of the original forty-eight catalogued by Ptolemy in the second century. Its light set out in the mid-fourteenth century, while the Black Death advanced across Europe. It still travels, indifferent.