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Its story

In the small Dove, a constellation traced in the seventeenth century to commemorate the biblical bird of the Flood, burns a class B blue star 439 light-years away. Its light set out when Tycho Brahe was tuning his instruments at Uraniborg and rewriting European observational astronomy. Young and scorching, it pours a blue-white brightness into the southern sky, escort of Canis Major.