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Its story

In Ursa Minor, the small constellation guarding the celestial north, shines a yellow G-class star whose light set out around 1697, during the reign of Charles II in Spain and the twilight of the Habsburg dynasty. It shares the Sun's chromatic family —golden and temperate— but swollen into a giant several times wider. Its warm glow is the discreet imprint of a sun already grown old, loyal to a corner of the sky where bright stars are scarce.