Paikauhale

Its story

Paikauhale is a very hot blue star at 474 light-years from the Earth, set discreetly inside the rich constellation Scorpius. Its name comes from Hawaiian and describes someone who drifts from house to house without settling anywhere: a perpetual wanderer with no fixed home and no warmth of his own to fall back on. The light now appearing in southern European summer skies left the star when Charles V abdicated the empire in Brussels, dividing between his son and his brother the largest crown the continent had ever known.