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Its story

In Lepus, right beneath Orion's feet, this white A-type star emits the crisp, clean glow that defines its class, dominated by hot hydrogen. Its light set out 416 years ago, just as Galileo first turned his telescope toward the sky in 1610. Hotter and more luminous than the Sun, it concentrates in a single point the austere elegance of young stars only beginning their journey along the main sequence.