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Its story

It dwells in Orion, the hunter, the most recognisable constellation of the northern winter sky. An F-type star, white-yellow and slightly hotter than the Sun, its light began its journey some 637 years ago, in the late Middle Ages, when Geoffrey Chaucer was writing his «Canterbury Tales» in an England just battered by the Black Death. A discreet glimmer near the firmament's most spectacular group of suns.