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Its story

44 Geminorum is a hot blue B-type star kindled some 401 light-years away, on the eastern flank of the Twins. Its surface reaches temperatures far higher than the Sun's and pours out the clean, near blue-violet light that marks massive young stars. The light reaching telescopes tonight set out around the seventeenth century —the years the first systematic catalogues were beginning to fix the sky onto paper.