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Its story

In the tiny southern Musca, some 347 light-years away, shines this white type A star. Its light began its journey around 1678, while Newton was quietly refining the principles that would explain the mechanics of the heavens. Hotter, more massive and more luminous than the Sun, it gleams cold and crisp inside a modern constellation traced by Dutch navigators under southern skies Europe was only beginning to map.