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Its story

At 753 light years in the Stern, this blue B-type star is light that was already travelling when Cervantes finished the first part of Don Quixote. At magnitude 5.03 it brushes the limit of what unaided eyes can detect on a clear night, and through a telescope it shows the bluish-white signature of the hottest stars. Its spectral type places it among the massive bodies that light the spiral arms of the Milky Way with a brilliance barely tempered by time.