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Its story

Above the southern plumage of Phoenix drifts a white star, an A-type sun whose crisp light travelled 200 years to settle in our skies. When it left its atmosphere, European presses were composing the first treatises of the late Enlightenment. Hotter and more luminous than our Sun, it radiates a mineral white, almost metallic, like the freshly polished edge of a precision instrument.