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Its story

6 Tauri is a hot blue B-type star roughly 350 light-years away in the wide territory of Taurus, toward the western reaches that drift away from the Pleiades and the Hyades. Its blue-white glow betrays a very hot surface. The light reaching us tonight slipped away around the middle of the seventeenth century, in the same generation in which Galileo defended heliocentrism and Kepler set down his laws of planetary motion.