hip-43413

Its story

In the Sails of the celestial ship pulses a blue beacon of variable magnitude, set at a colossal distance —more than three hundred thousand light-years, already in the extragalactic suburbs of the Local Group—. If its light set out that long ago, the first modern hominids barely existed on Earth. A B-type star this far away is only visible because it burns with a power that humbles the Sun.