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Its story

In the realm of Canis Major shines a blue-white type-B star whose light set out in the late sixteenth century, when Galileo first pointed his telescope at the skies of Padua. Hotter and more massive than the Sun, its hue is that of the youngest flames —a brief, glorious blaze proper to stars that will burn fast. Nearly five centuries were needed for its message to reach the human eye.