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Its story

In Auriga, the old charioteer of the winter sky, shines an A-type white star. Its light set out almost two hundred and eighty years ago, around the mid-eighteenth century, when the Enlightenment was trying to classify the world and the first encyclopaedias were being born. Hotter than the Sun, it unfolds that crisp white glow that no cooler body can imitate. It shines discreetly in a constellation dominated by luminous Capella, like a smaller yet essential link in the wheel of the celestial chariot that rolls each winter above the horizon.