Shaula

Its story

Shaula guards the Scorpion's stinger —a blue-white variable 571 light-years away, so hot its surface tops 20,000 degrees. Its name comes from the Arabic «al-šawlā», the raised tail poised to strike, and together with neighbouring Lesath it forms the double gleam that has drawn the gaze toward the galactic core for millennia. The light gathered tonight set out before the first Gutenberg Bible was printed in Europe.