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Its story

18 Andromedae is a hot blue B-type star burning at temperatures far above the Sun's, set in the field of Andromeda, an angular neighbour of the famous spiral galaxy that shares the constellation's name. Its blue-white hue betrays cosmic youth and considerable mass. At 421 light-years, its light departed around 1605, crossing space just as Cervantes had finished publishing the first part of Don Quixote in Madrid.