hip-33558

Its story

In the stern of the celestial ship burns a blue B-type sun, a hot bonfire spilling violet light into interstellar silence. Its brightness travelled 590 years to reach today: when it set out, European courts were weighing the first consequences of the New World's discovery. Far more massive and scorching than our Sun, it lives in a hurry, like a flame that knows itself to be brief on the galactic calendar.