Fang

Its story

Fang, in Scorpius, takes its name from an ancient Chinese asterism representing a room or chamber, part of the traditional division of the sky into the twenty-eight lunar mansions used by court astronomers. It is a blue variable star 586 light-years away, member of a multiple system whose combined brightness shifts in subtle, slow rhythms. Its light set out around the time Gutenberg was finishing his first printed Bible in the workshops of Mainz.