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Its story

Far away in Centaurus gleams a white A-type star whose light has been traveling for more than four centuries. When the ray now reaching our eyes set out, Cervantes had just published the second part of Don Quixote and the Atlantic shipyards were carving galleons for ever longer crossings. Its surface burns past eight thousand degrees and its size exceeds the Sun's, a serene bonfire that has witnessed, without knowing, the centuries when Spain leaned out toward a new world.