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Its story

In Cygnus, beside the great luminous river of the summer Milky Way, blazes a blue-white B-class star whose light has been travelling for over thirteen hundred years: it set out when the Visigothic kingdoms were yielding ground to the Muslim expansion in the Iberian Peninsula. Hot and luminous, it radiates an icy, almost violet glow. It is a young, massive, short-lived star that shines above its class in a field of the sky where almost every light has a story.