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Its story

Nameless in the southern Centaur, this blue B-type ember burns 354 light-years away —its glow set out when Voltaire was publishing «Candide» in 1759. Its surface easily passes ten thousand degrees, twice the Sun, and dresses it in that severe blue only cosmic furnaces ever wear. It shines beneath a constellation the ancients pictured as a centaur, half sage, half beast.