hip-57669

Its story

Deep within Centaurus burns a young blue star whose light set out nearly six centuries ago, when the Iberian kingdoms were closing the Reconquista and the seas were opening to the first caravels. A B-type sun, several times hotter and more massive than ours, its surface hovers around twenty thousand degrees. That blue-white glow belongs to an age when world maps still ended at the edge and the southern sky kept its secrets for the navigators who would soon cross the equator.