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Its story

In the stern of the ship Argo, within Puppis, a blue B-type beacon burns 593 light-years away. Its light sprang forth when Gutenberg was perfecting the printing press and the first books were spreading across Europe. Far hotter and more energetic than the Sun, its blue tone is the colour of stellar youth, brief and intense. To see it is to behold a fire that was already travelling before newspapers, novels, or beloved letters existed.