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Its story

In the sails of the Argo, the constellation of Vela, blazes a young blue B-type star whose light has been on its way for more than eight centuries. It set out when Christian and Muslim kingdoms were disputing the Iberian peninsula and the first European universities, in Bologna and Paris, were formalizing their faculties. Very hot and far more massive than the Sun, it is a blue-white incandescence that burns in haste. Its glow is a medieval flame still traveling, indifferent to the centuries that have passed beneath it.