“Tell the Birthday Stars computer when you were born, and it will look for a star that is your age in light years away from Earth. This means that the light we’re seeing from that star today actually left the star around when you were born, and has taken your entire life to reach Earth.” My current birthday star is 61 Ursae Majoris in the constellation Ursa Major, at a magnitude of 5.31 barely visible with the naked eye.
