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Its story

In Perseus —the hero who beheaded Medusa— shines an F-type star, yellow-white and somewhat hotter than the Sun. Its light departed at the close of the nineteenth century, when Marie Curie was beginning her studies in Paris and Edison was patenting the incandescent bulb. It crossed the silence of a century and a half to arrive, untouched, at this very night, reminding us how many lives fit within a single gleam.