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Its story

In the Hare crouching beneath Orion, some 460 light-years away, gleams this white type A star. Its light set out around 1564, the year Galileo and Shakespeare were born almost together, and Europe prepared to look at the world —and the skies— in a different way. Hotter and more luminous than the Sun, it crosses the northern winter like a small splinter of ice fastened beneath the hunter's feet.