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Its story

In the small constellation of Norma, traced by Lacaille in the 18th century, burns a blue-white B-class star whose light departed around 1561, when Tycho Brahe was still a child in Denmark. Far hotter than the Sun, it radiates an icy, almost violet glow. It dwells in the deep heart of the southern Milky Way, hidden from those who only look north, reminding us that the whole sky is a single book read from two hemispheres.