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Its story

A white A-type light burns in Centaurus at about 149 light-years, a distance its glow has been crossing since the mid-nineteenth century, while Europe was passing the midpoint of the industrial era. Hotter and brighter than the Sun, its surface reaches temperatures around 9000 degrees. Visible only in skies well away from the city, it shines with the serene stillness of the white edges of the southern firmament.