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Its story

In the southern Dove pulses a blue star whose light crossed eleven hundred and forty-four years of space before arriving. It set out while Europe was still in the High Middle Ages and the first universities were opening their doors in Bologna and Paris. It is a young, vehement sun, far hotter than our own, with that blue-white surface only massive stars possess. Modest to the unaided eye, it keeps alive the promise of a sky still telling old stories in light.