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Its story

In the celestial chariot of Auriga shines a white A-class star, hotter and more luminous than the Sun, lying nearly three hundred light-years away. The light that draws it in the winter sky set out when the first reflecting telescopes were being assembled in English workshops and Kepler's laws were being debated in European courts. Its crystalline, almost bluish tone belongs to young stars still living the stable phase of hydrogen fusion.