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Its story

17 Canum Venaticorum shines about 207 light-years away in the Hunting Dogs, a constellation that Hevelius drafted in the 17th century to accompany the Herdsman in his endless chase around the celestial pole. A-type, its light is white and its surface hotter than the Sun's; easily overlooked by the unaided eye, it shares the sky with the spiral galaxy M51 —the Whirlpool— and with distant globulars such as M3.