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Its story

In the small Pyxis, the compass of the celestial navigator, burns a blue B-type sun whose light took 1,584 years to reach our skies. When it set out, the Roman Empire still ruled the Mediterranean and the earliest monasteries were copying manuscripts by candlelight. Far more massive and hotter than our Sun, it marks a heading with a bluish glow that seems to honour the craft of finding one's way through the unknown.