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Its story

5 Ursae Minoris glows like an orange ember of K-type in the tail of the Little Bear, some 359 light-years away. Its faint magnitude-4.25 light drifted across centuries before reaching the northern circumpolar skies. A calm orange giant, it sits as a quiet neighbour to the pole star —a silent companion in that ever-visible corner of the boreal heavens.