hip-37229

Its story

It burns with bluish white light in the stern of Puppis, a class B surface far hotter than the Sun. Its glow needed 346 years to cross the void: when it set out, Galileo was still refining his small spyglass and Europe was learning to look upward differently. Anonymous among the sails of the old celestial ship, it holds its brilliance without names —only a catalogue number and a temperature unreachable by our star—.