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Theta Carinae is the brightest jewel of IC 2602, the open cluster astronomers call the Southern Pleiades. A hot blue subgiant, far younger than the Sun, it leads its sister stars across the southern sky in a choreography born barely thirty million years ago. Its cold, electric light travels some 455 years to reach us, carrying the reflection of a swarm of freshly kindled stars in the constellation of the Keel.