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Its story

Among the timid paws of the Hare, at the feet of the hunter Orion, burns a white star of A type. Its light set out almost three hundred and fifty years ago, when Newton published his Principia and rewrote the laws that govern the heavens. Hotter and more luminous than the Sun, it sheds a smooth glow, almost like freshly polished crystal. It trembles discreetly beside its elusive constellation, a reminder that even the lesser figures of the sky carry ancient light that has crossed whole oceans of darkness.