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Its story

In Lupus, the wolf constellation of the southern sky, it burns with the cutting blue of hot class B stars. The light observed set out 387 years ago: when it did, the Thirty Years' War was unfolding in central Europe and Descartes was publishing his «Discourse on the Method», opening a new era for philosophy. It is a young sun on the cosmic scale, far hotter and more energetic than our own, and its bluish brightness stands out in its corner of the southern sky.