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Its story

In Ophiuchus, the serpent-bearer, burns this blue-tinged B-class star, far hotter than the Sun and more than eleven hundred light-years away. Its light set out around the year 909, in the depths of the Middle Ages, when the Christian kingdoms of northern Iberia were slowly advancing toward the line of the Duero. More than a millennium later, that severe blue crosses the Milky Way's frontier and arrives here.