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Its story

In Lacerta, the small lizard named by Hevelius in the seventeenth century, shines a white A-type star whose light set out around 1342, in the late Middle Ages and on the eve of the Black Death. Hotter and more luminous than the Sun, it wears the cold, exact white of stars still young. Almost seven centuries of travel to deliver an austere gleam to this sky.