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Its story

On the southern plains of Centaurus, this hot blue B-type star has been sending us light for seven centuries. It departed around 1326, when illuminated manuscripts flourished in monasteries and the Black Death was silently brewing on the Asian steppes. Its bluish surface scorches far hotter than the Sun's, and no human eye could endure its proximity. We see it tiny only because seven hundred years of space stand between its fury and our sky.