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Its story

68 Herculis is a blue variable star that pulses slowly within the body of Hercules, the kneeling hero of the northern sky. Its brightness shifts over time, a trait common to hot B-type giants stirred by violent internal processes. Its light crosses more than six hundred and sixty-five years before touching Earth; it set out at a time when telescopes did not yet exist and astronomy depended entirely on the human eye.