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Its story

Far out in Centaurus, that vast southern constellation, a white A-type star has been sending its light for nearly six hundred years. It set out as Gutenberg, in Mainz, was perfecting the first movable type and Europe had yet to grasp that it was about to invent the printed book. Hotter and more luminous than the Sun, it crosses the void with the calm of a mineral lighthouse. We see it today, but its light was born in a world without printing.