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Its story

Within the body of the Bull burns 90 Tauri, a white A-type sun catalogued by John Flamsteed among the members of the Hyades cluster. Its cool, sharp light travels roughly 154 years to reach our eyes —when it set out, Europe was still learning to read the sky through refracting telescopes—. To the naked eye it slips by unnoticed; through binoculars it surfaces as a clean pinpoint, threaded into the luminous V that traces the Bull's face.