hip-3951

Its story

In Cassiopeia rests a white A-type star, with serene radiance and a temperature far above the Sun's. Its light took some 640 years to traverse space: it departed around 1386, when Geoffrey Chaucer was beginning his «Canterbury Tales» and Europe was slowly emerging from the Black Death. That brilliance has travelled through the entire modern era to outline today the silhouette of the celestial queen.