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Its story

Within the spread wings of Pegasus shines a blue-white type B star, young and far hotter than the Sun. Its light took roughly 527 years to cross the void: it set out when Leonardo da Vinci was sketching his flying machines in Milan and Christopher Columbus was returning from his second voyage to the New World. It now arrives as a bluish heartbeat, suspended on the back of the winged horse that gallops eternally across the autumn skies of the north.