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Its story

In the southern heart of the Centaur burns a blue B-type star whose brightness oscillates with the elegance of a slow pendulum. Its light crossed four hundred eight years to reach us, setting out around 1618, just as the Thirty Years' War was erupting in the heart of Europe. Hot and luminous far beyond the Sun, its pulsation betrays inner layers in motion, oscillations that turn it into a discreet beacon of the southern hemisphere.