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Its story

It is a white A-type star coiled within Draco, that celestial serpent encircling the northern circumpolar stars. Its light set out some 254 years ago, when James Cook was completing his first circumnavigation and the Enlightenment was measuring the world with sextants. Hotter than the Sun, it radiates with the firm calm of early-spectrum stars. Draco carries it along a discreet bend, away from the well-marked head.