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Its story

It glitters white and bluish in Cepheus, that discreet figure near the northern celestial pole, about 922 light years away. Its light set out around 1104, when the Crusaders were consolidating their presence in the Holy Land and Chinese astronomers were recording the birth of the Crab Nebula. B-type, young and very hot, it radiates with that blue signature proper to stars that burn fast and shine fiercely. A crisp flame in the quietest region of the northern sky.