Aspidiske

Its story

Aspidiske shines in Carina at 765 light-years, a luminous white class-A star whose power makes it a distant lighthouse of the southern sky. Its Greek name means «little shield» and once denoted one of the ornaments of the ship Argo on old celestial charts. The light crossing the atmosphere tonight was already on its way when the English Magna Carta was being signed, and centuries will pass before it fades into other skies.