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Its story

It belongs to Norma, a small constellation introduced in the eighteenth century in homage to the carpenter's set square. White in color, proper to A-class stars, it radiates with a temperature considerably above the Sun's. Its light began its journey some 194 years ago, when the first steam locomotives were starting to haul trains over iron rails in England and the railway was forever reshaping human geography. It shines with that cold, exact clarity of young stars, immersed in the stellar richness of the south.