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Its story

In Centaurus shines a white A-type star, hotter and more luminous than the Sun. Its light took some 202 years to reach us: it set out while William Herschel was still probing the shape of the Milky Way from England and Beethoven was composing his early symphonies. It is a clean, sharp spark, characteristic of young suns that have not yet yielded to the weariness of hydrogen.