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Its story

In Orion —the sky's most famous hunter— shines a white A-type star. Its light has been on its way some five hundred twenty-eight years: it set out as Columbus was returning from his first voyage and Europe was beginning to absorb the news of a new continent. Hotter and more luminous than the Sun, it radiates with the cold purity of a diamond. To look at it is to see the light that crossed the ocean in the same days as the ships of discovery.