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Its story

In Perseus it shines with the deep blue of hot class B stars, a tone that betrays surface temperatures far above the Sun's. Its light covered 458 years before reaching us: when it set out, the Renaissance was in full ferment in Europe and Leonardo da Vinci was sketching his flying machines in secret notebooks. It belongs to the lineage of young, powerful suns whose lives, on the cosmic scale, are brief but dazzling.