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Its story

In Musca, the small southern fly, blazes a blue B-type star whose light has been traveling for a thousand years. It set out when the Maghrebi kingdoms were flourishing and the workshops of Córdoba and Seville were translating Greek philosophy for Europe. Very hot and massive, several times more luminous than the Sun, it is a blue-white incandescence in a constellation drawn by Dutch navigators in the southern sky. Its flame is a medieval message only now crossing the threshold of our telescopes, claimed by no proper name.