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Its story

On the keel of the southern ship burns a blue beacon vibrating from 542.8 light years away. Its light departed when the Lisbon shipyards were still launching caravels toward the Indies —between 1481 and 1483— and European cartography was redrawing the world. The indigo hue betrays a class B surface, far hotter than the Sun, capable of bleaching any chromatic comparison in the sky.