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Its story

In the star fields of Perseus burns a blue-white B-type sun, so hot its surface easily exceeds ten thousand degrees. The light now reaching our telescopes set out around the fifteenth century, when Gutenberg was printing his first Bible in Mainz and the written word began its revolution across Europe. Far more massive and luminous than the Sun, this star lives in a hurry, burning nuclear fuel with an intensity ours will never know.