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Its story

Delta Normae inhabits one of the youngest and most modest constellations in the sky, the Carpenter's Square, drawn by the French astronomer Lacaille in the eighteenth century to fill the gaps of the southern heavens. It is a white A-type star lying 122 light-years away, a young and hot body whose light cuts through the southern band of the Milky Way. Its clean brilliance stands out amid the dust of a densely seeded firmament, deep in the luminous river of the galaxy.