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Its story

Beneath the feet of Orion, in the silent Hare, shines a white A-class star, hotter and brighter than the Sun, just over two hundred and twenty light-years away. Its crystalline light set out as the French encyclopaedists were sharpening their pens and the European kingdoms were debating the balance of the Old Regime. Its pearly tone belongs to those young, elegant stars that carve the southern winters with an almost metallic glint.