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Its story

On the southern Altar burns a blue-white B-type star, a stellar bonfire nearly three thousand light years distant. Its light began its journey around the tenth century BCE, when kings David and Solomon were consolidating Jerusalem and the first Temple was being raised according to biblical chronicles. Hot, massive, and far more luminous than the Sun, from its remoteness it offers but a faint light to the human eye —barely perceptible unaided— yet immense in physical reality.