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Its story

In the stern of the Argo, once more, shines a blue giant, young and distant. Its light began its journey 1,149 years ago, when the Vikings were raiding Irish monasteries and the Chinese Tang dynasty was writing its last verses before its fall. Far hotter than the Sun, its sapphire colour places it among the stars of briefest and fiercest lives: a cosmic flash born to die young.