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Its story

26 Boötis is a white-yellow subgiant in the Herdsman, an F-type star that has burned the hydrogen at its core and is beginning to leave the main sequence on its way to becoming a giant. It is approaching Earth at about sixteen kilometres per second. Its light crosses just over one hundred and seventy years: it set out around 1850, when Le Verrier and Adams were still arguing about who had truly predicted Neptune.