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Its story

In Monoceros, the discreet celestial unicorn, shines a yellow-white F-type star about one hundred and eighty light years away. Its light set out in the late nineteenth century, when the first skyscrapers were rising in Chicago and photography was beginning to capture moments that until then belonged only to memory. Slightly hotter and more luminous than the Sun, it is an elder sister with a crisp disk. The constellation, drawn in the seventeenth century, appears in no ancient catalog: beneath it, this star burns without ever having been sung by any mythology.