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Its story

In Norma, the modest southern set square, shines a yellow-white F-type star, slightly hotter than the Sun. Its light began its journey some 101 years ago, in the roaring twenties, when jazz was spreading through the cities and Hubble was demonstrating that galaxies existed beyond the Milky Way. That tempered glow now arrives from a small and seldom-celebrated constellation of the south.