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Its story

In the jaws of Canis Major burns a blue B-type sun, a distant bonfire whose light set out 1,110 years ago. When it began its journey, Al-Andalus was flourishing under the Caliphate of Córdoba and European monasteries were hand-copying the last classical texts. Far more massive and hotter than our Sun, it lives a short and violent existence, scattering violet radiation in a corner of sky where the brightest star of our night also shines.