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Its story

In the keel of the Argo, deep in the south, burns this blue B-type star. Its light set out around 760 years ago, near 1266, when Thomas Aquinas was writing his «Summa Theologiae» and medieval scholasticism reached its peak. Much hotter and brighter than the Sun, it lives fast among stellar winds and ultraviolet radiation. Carina belongs to the ancient mythical ship that crossed the southern sky, and this blue star is one of the many bright oars driving it in silence.