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Its story

Within the Keel of the ancient southern Ship shines a yellow-white F-class star with discreet elegance. Its light crossed space for nearly one hundred and twenty years, leaving when Marie Curie was isolating radium in her Parisian laboratory and opening the door to the atomic age. Hotter and slightly larger than the Sun, it traces a serene point across one of the oldest regions of the southern sky.