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Its story

30 Pegasi rides along the Winged Horse, more than 1,270 light-years away. It is a blue B-type star, far hotter, more massive and more luminous than the Sun —the kind of sun destined for a brief life and a spectacular ending. The light presenting it tonight set out in the 8th century, when the sky was being mapped with bronze instruments at the observatories of Baghdad.