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Its story

It belongs to Draco, the dragon coiled around the northern celestial pole, and shines with the warm yellow-white of F-class stars. Its light set out on its journey around 110 years ago, when the Wright brothers were testing their first powered flights and the world was learning to leave the ground. It is a variable whose pulsations remind us that even what seems immutable still beats. Its intrinsic glow outshines the Sun and, from boreal latitudes, it appears to keep watch over the long winter nights.