hip-79199

Its story

Within the claws of Scorpius blazes a blue B-type star, young and feverish, far hotter and more massive than the Sun. Its light set out a little over four centuries ago, when Kepler was publishing his three laws of planetary motion and the cosmos ceased to be a perfect circle to become an ellipse. Its blue-white tone belongs to stars that live fast and burn intensely, fleeting on a stellar scale, as if knowing that their time is short even among constellations.