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Its story

In Monoceros, a discreet constellation in Orion's shadow, shines this blue B-type star, with surfaces that can reach several tens of thousands of degrees. Its light set out 640 years ago, around 1384, when the florin was being minted in Nuremberg and the Hanseatic cities dominated northern European trade. Young and massive, its glow belongs to those stars that will only shine for a few hundred million years before burning out.