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Its story

In the small Dove of the southern sky burns a class-B blue star, its light having crossed 408 years before arriving. It left as Galileo aimed his telescope at Jupiter and discovered its four large moons, opening the sky like a book. Far hotter and brighter than the Sun, it is one of those blue-white bonfires that are born quickly, blaze intensely, and fade in short cosmic spans.