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Its story

In Carina, the keel of the ancient ship Argo, shines a white A-type star whose light set out around 1675, the year Charles II founded the Royal Observatory at Greenwich. Hotter and more luminous than the Sun, it wears the pure white of stars still living their youth. Its light crossed three and a half centuries to meet the moment in which we now look upon it, cold and exact.