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Its story

In Draco, the dragon winding between the two bears, glows an orange giant whose light set out around 1387, when Chaucer was writing the Canterbury Tales. Cooler than the Sun and highly luminous, it wears the warm hue of stars that have left their youth behind. Its coppery, serene, ancient glow crosses more than six centuries to settle within one of the broadest corners of the northern sky.