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Its story

In the winter Unicorn burns a blue star whose light set out seven hundred and fifty-three years ago, when Marco Polo was beginning his long journey to the court of Kublai Khan. It is a young sun, several times more massive and far hotter than our own; its surface, close to twenty thousand degrees, lends it a piercing blue-white hue. Faint to the eye, its inner fire is immense. It belongs to that modern constellation, traced during the Renaissance, which still carries the mythic air of medieval bestiaries.