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Its story

It is a luminous beacon in Cassiopeia, the queen seated on her celestial throne, about 2,001 light years away. Its light set out at the height of the 1st century, when Rome lived under the Julio-Claudian dynasty and the first Christian texts were beginning to circulate across the eastern Mediterranean. F-type, somewhat hotter than the Sun and notably more luminous, it radiates a white with a yellow tint. A mighty flame whose journey crosses two full millennia before touching our retina.