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Its story

In Draco, the dragon coiling around the northern celestial pole, beats a yellow G-type star —a spectral cousin of the Sun, yet far more distant: 456 light-years. Its light slipped away while Galileo aimed one of the first telescopes at the sky and modern astronomy took root. To see its golden tone in the northern heavens is to glimpse a faraway Sun caught between the dragon's sinuous coils.