Mu

Its story

Mu Arietis is a white star about three hundred and eighty light-years away, one of the faint markers that extend the silhouette of the Ram beyond its bright head. Its light, soft but steady, crosses a region of the sky through which the Sun appears to pass each spring, symbolically opening the zodiac's cycle. It set out for us when Hernán Cortés first laid eyes upon Tenochtitlán.