Iot

Its story

Iota Leporis slips between the paws of the Hare, that small constellation fleeing at Orion's feet, forever stalked by the Greater Dog. It is a hot blue B-type star, compact and bright, sitting some 232 light-years away. Its cold light travelled for more than two centuries to reach the eye of the modern observer, having set out roughly when the Montgolfier brothers were trialling the first balloon flights and humanity was learning for the first time to leave the ground behind.