hip-15876

Its story

In Perseus, the hero who beheaded Medusa according to Greek myth, watches a blue-white A-type star, intense and serene. Its 436 light-years were born while Elizabethan England was crushing the Spanish Armada and Mediterranean shipyards were rethinking their naval power from the ground up. That light was already traveling when the chronicles of those battles were still fresh gunpowder.