Xuange

Its story

Xuange shines 99 light-years away in Boötes, a white class-A star whose name comes from traditional Chinese astronomy. It means roughly «the shadowed pavilion» and belonged to the imperial constellations that organised the court's sky. The Western Boötes, the herdsman who follows the Great Bear, coexists here with the eastern cartography: two ways of reading the same strip of sky, neither more true than the other, only different in grammar.