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Its story

26 Canis Majoris is a hot blue B-type star whose brightness varies over time, a faint pulsation characteristic of young massive stars. Its light crossed more than eight hundred light-years to reach us from the constellation of the Greater Dog, home also to Sirius, the brightest star in the night sky. When this light departed, the great Arab geographers were producing maps of the known world and stellar catalogues that still shape the names of the sky.