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Its story

In the claws of Scorpius shines a white A-class star, hotter and more luminous than the Sun, lying some two hundred and thirty-five light-years away. The crystalline light that now defines it set out when European kingdoms were debating the first treaties of the Enlightenment and refracting telescopes were beginning to spread among amateur astronomers. Its bluish-white tone belongs to those young, elegant stars that have not yet begun to age into red giants.