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Its story

Puppis is the part of the old ship Argo still sailing the southern sky, laden with hot white stars. One of them is this A-type sun, especially luminous, whose light took about 1546 years to reach us. When it set out, the Western Roman Empire had just collapsed and Europe was entering — without knowing it yet — what later ages would call the Early Middle Ages. Its white, fiercer-than-Sun radiance has been crossing the void in silence ever since.