Cujam

Its story

Cujam is a hot B-type star in the constellation of Hercules, lying 250 light-years away, slightly variable. Its name derives from the medieval Latin «cuiacum», a kind of sword or short weapon attributed to the hero in Renaissance astronomical engravings. Hercules occupies a vast stretch of the northern sky kneeling and exhausted after his twelve labours — according to the oldest reading of the figure, predating even the Greco-Latin tradition that turned it into heroic glory.