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Its story

In Vela, the canvas of the ancient Argo unfurled across austral seas, gleams a blue B-type star some 545 light-years away. Its light set off around 1480, when the Catholic Monarchs were consolidating a new state and Columbus was still preparing the daring venture that would reshape the world's map. Far hotter than the Sun, its cold, electric blaze seems to tauten the mythic sail in an impossible cosmic breeze.