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Its story

In Microscopium —a modern constellation devised by the abbé La Caille in the eighteenth century— shines a yellow-white F-type star, somewhat hotter than the Sun. Its light has been travelling barely one hundred seven years: it set out as the aircraft of the Great War began crossing European skies and radio was still a recent miracle. It is the light of an almost contemporary cosmos, dispatched when the grandparents of those who watch it today were already alive.