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Mark Fisher
1999-2008
4 Ursae Minoris
An
orange
giant
star
almost exactly five hundred
light years
from the
Earth
. It is not far from the
Northern Celestial Pole
in the sky, and forms an approximate line with the two
brighter
stars
known as the
Guardians of the Pole
,
Pherkad
and
Kochab
.
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