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Its story

In Centaurus, the vast constellation that guards the brightest corners of the southern sky, it burns with the vibrant blue of hot class B stars. Its light covered 412 years before arriving: when it set out, the first English colonies were taking root in North America and Cervantes was writing the second part of Don Quixote in Madrid. It is a young, energetic sun, whose surface reaches temperatures far higher than the Sun's, and whose bluish glow stands out among the stars of its region.