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Its story

14 Canum Venaticorum shines within the Hunting Dogs, a small constellation introduced by Hevelius to represent the hounds of Bootes the Herdsman. At some 340 light-years away, this blue-white B-class star occupies a stretch of sky famous for distant galaxies rather than for nearby stars. Where almost everything bright lies millions of light-years out, it stands out as comparatively near and sharp, a foreground point against an extragalactic backdrop.