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Its story

In Orion, the eternal hunter of the northern winter, shines a white A-type star, hotter and more luminous than the Sun, with the bright purity only young stars possess. Its light takes around 235 years to cross the void: what arrives today departed about 1791, while French revolutionaries were drafting their first Constitution and Mozart was composing The Magic Flute. Orion presides over those skies like a myth still alive.