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Its story

In Canes Venatici, the small hunting dogs beside Boötes, shines an orange K-type star, cooler than the Sun yet noticeably more luminous due to its size. Its light took some 317 years to cross space: it set out while Newton was publishing his «Principia» and enlightened Europe was beginning to understand gravity. An amber glow, patient and steady, embodies that old northern light.