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Its story

56 Arietis is a massive blue-white B-type star with a heartbeat of its own: a variable studied as a prototype of chemically peculiar, rapidly rotating stars. It lies some 503 light-years away in the Ram, the first constellation of the zodiac. Its light set out around 1523, just after Magellan and Elcano had completed the first circumnavigation of the globe, and now crosses the winter sky pulsing discreetly.