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Its story

In Cassiopeia — the queen seated on her celestial throne — gleams a blue B-type star, far hotter and more massive than the Sun. Its light took roughly 537 years to cross the void: it set out as the printing press was being born in Europe and Machiavelli was writing «The Prince». That bluish spark, brief and fierce on stellar scales, traces a cold accent across the constellation's cardinal silhouette.