hip-34301

Its story

On the flank of Canis Major burns a blue-white type-B star, far hotter and more powerful than the Sun, whose brightness oscillates over time like a distant lighthouse drawing breath. Its light reaches us after a colossal journey of over 3,000 years, begun when the peoples of the Aegean were shaping the first Greek city-states. It is an ancient, almost mythical flame, still throbbing in the darkness of the southern winter.