Bet

Its story

Beta Muscae burns with the sharp blue of B-type stars within a small, seldom-noticed southern constellation. Some 342 light-years away, its light crosses a quiet patch of sky where there is little to compete with it: Musca is unassuming, almost a whisper between the Southern Cross and Chamaeleon. That modesty of setting turns it into an unexpected beacon —a cold, precise flame in a region the eye tends to skim.