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Its story

In the gallop of the Centaur burns a blue flame 466 light-years away, belonging to one of the great young associations of the southern sky. Its light departed around 1560, when a young Tycho Brahe, still a student, witnessed the eclipse that would decide his life as an astronomer. Hot B-types are violent flames: they burn their fuel so quickly that they live less than a thousandth as long as the Sun.