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Its story

In Lepus, the small Hare that flees eternally beneath Orion's feet, shines this A-class white at two hundred and forty-five light-years. Its light departed around 1781, the very year William Herschel discovered Uranus and unwittingly doubled the known size of the Solar System. Hotter and whiter than the Sun, it lives in one of those minor constellations that most nights go unnoticed.