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Its story

In the discreet Crow burns a blue B-type star whose light flickers gently, marked by pulsation. Its distance is dizzying: three thousand one hundred sixty-seven light years. It set out around the year eleven forty, when Europe was raising its first Gothic cathedrals and master masons were learning to make stone float. Hot and luminous far beyond the Sun, its shifting glow is the heartbeat of a vast star that has not yet found its balance.