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Its story

Along the long curves of Hydra shines a blue-white B-type star, whose surface exceeds ten thousand degrees. Its light crossed two hundred sixty-two years to reach us, departing around 1764, the year Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny in England and hastened the dawn of the Industrial Revolution. Hotter and far more luminous than the Sun, it shines in full stellar vigor —emblem of the young, massive stars that light the sky with their bluish, ephemeral glow.