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Its story

In the old constellation Vela, fragment of the ship Argo, burns a white A-type star, hotter and more luminous than the Sun. Its light set out close to 1,264 years ago, when astronomers of the Abbasid caliphate were translating Ptolemy in Baghdad and a new astronomy was being born with them. That same clarity still travels the sky, faithful to its appointment with whoever looks up.