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Its story

From Canis Major, Orion's faithful guardian, comes the light of a blue B-type star located about 863 light years away. That light set out around the year 1163, in the heart of the Middle Ages, when work was beginning on the cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris. Far hotter and more massive than the Sun, it belongs to that category of young stars able to light entire regions around them. Its bluish-white glow is camouflaged amid the overwhelming brilliance of Sirius, the most famous pearl of the celestial pack.