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Its story

In the open claws of Scorpius shines a yellow-white sun, an F-type star whose light crossed 255 years of night to touch our eyes. When it set out, the French encyclopaedists were drafting the volumes that would reshape European culture. Slightly hotter and larger than our Sun, it offers a clear and serene light, a fine flash between the claws of a scorpion that seems to capture forever the hunter Orion in classical myth.