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Its story

On the shoulders of Perseus burns a blue B-type star whose light has been crossing space for more than five centuries. It set out when Copernicus was finishing De revolutionibus and the Sun, in silence, was moving to occupy the center of the known universe. It is very hot and massive, its surface temperature several times that of the Sun and its blue-white glow intense. The constellation tells an ancient legend of heroes; this star, nameless, is one of its most feverish embers.