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Its story

In Camelopardalis shines a white A-type star 153 light-years away. Its light set out during the Belle Époque, as the Lumière brothers projected the first moving pictures in Paris before an astonished audience. Hotter and more luminous than the Sun, it shines quietly among the stylised legs of a celestial giraffe, a reminder that human novelties travel faster than any sidereal message.