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Its story

Within the northern coils of Draco shines an orange type K star, cool and veteran —an elder sibling of the Sun in years but paler in glow. Its light took almost 409 years to cross the void: it set out when Cervantes published the second part of Don Quixote and Galileo's telescopes were discovering the moons of Jupiter. It now appears as a coppery flicker among the rings of the circumpolar dragon, eternal guardian of the northern sky.