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Its story

In Centaurus, a constellation chiefly visible from the southern hemisphere, it gleams with the smooth, brilliant white of class A stars. The light now seen left 253 years ago, in the height of the Enlightenment: an era when European academies measured the world with pendulums and telescopes and the American Revolution was about to break out. It is a discreet star, with no known variability or companion, faithful to its white brilliance across time.