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Its story

Along the long body of Draco, coiled around the northern celestial pole, shines a white A-type star, hotter than the Sun and coolly precise. Its light began the journey some 447 years ago, when Tycho Brahe was observing the nova of 1572 from Hven and the very notion of an unchanging sky was beginning to crack. It arrives now with the clean, almost metallic clarity proper to white suns.