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Its story

In the vast constellation of the Virgin, 230 light-years away, shines a white type-A star whose light departed when the first pianofortes still rang through European salons and Mozart was writing his final operas. Hotter and more luminous than the Sun, it unfolds that clean, cold whiteness so typical of its spectral class. It is a discreet star, almost imperceptible to the naked eye, but its crisp tone emerges clearly the moment any instrument captures it.