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Its story

In Draco, the dragon that winds between the northern poles, shines an orange giant whose light has been on its way for more than three centuries. It set out when Bach was composing his Passions in Leipzig and Swiss clockmakers were perfecting the first precision mechanisms that would later lead to astronomical pendulum clocks. It is K-type, cooler than the Sun but swollen by age, a slow bonfire. Beneath the sinuous back of the celestial dragon, this orange ember burns nameless, watching the northern sky.