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Its story

20 Boötis burns amber along the outline of the Herdsman, an orange K-type giant some 187 light-years away. Its light began the journey around 1839, when photography was being invented and the world was learning to fix reality on silver plates. You will find it on the back of the celestial shepherd, far from the orange blaze of Arcturus, beating with that golden light only aged stars carry.