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Its story

In the small constellation of Circinus flickers a blue B-type star, a variable with an elegant beat. Its light departed fourteen hundred and six years ago, when Irish monks were copying manuscripts in their scriptoria and saving classical culture from oblivion. Far hotter and livelier than the Sun, it throbs strongly, like a blue ember breathing in the midst of cold. Each flash carries the golden dust of that memory rescued by quill.