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Its story

Puppis, the stern of the mythical Argo, hosts this discreet white star three hundred and forty-eight light-years away. The light arriving tonight set out around 1677, the year Antonie van Leeuwenhoek first described spermatozoa under his microscope in Delft. A-type, sharp and hot surface, with no ornament beyond the pure white of its spectrum: one of many anonymous stars holding up the outline of the southern ship.