hip-18217

Its story

At 164 light-years away, in Camelopardalis, the celestial giraffe whose constellation is as wide as it is discreet, it shines with the smooth white of class A stars. The light arriving now set out in the middle of the nineteenth century, in the heart of the industrial revolution, when railways were weaving their first networks across Europe and cities were filling with factories and smoke. Its white glow, with no companion or variability, arrives after a silent journey through interstellar dust.