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Its story

It carries the crisp whiteness of an A-type star in Centaurus, that southern hemisphere so welcoming to ancient sailors. Its light took just over a century and a half to arrive: it set out when Daguerre was fixing the first images on silver plates and the daguerreotype was born as a mirror of the world. Hotter and more luminous than the Sun, though its expected lifespan will be far shorter. The centaur shelters it without showing it off.