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Its story

Within the serpentine coils of Draco burns an orange star of type K, cooler and ruddier than the Sun. Its light took roughly 293 years to reach us: it set out when Newton was still revising his Principia and the refracting telescopes of Europe were just beginning to chart the heavens. It now beats with a tempered fire, faithful to its slow flicker among the rings of the circumpolar dragon that never sets beneath the northern horizon.