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Its story

In Serpens burns a blue B-type star, far hotter and more massive than the Sun. Its light took roughly 600 years to cross the void: it set out in the mid-15th century, when Gutenberg was printing the Bible with movable type and Constantinople fell to the Ottomans, redrawing the map of the Mediterranean. A blue flame, brief and fierce, crosses the 21st century from high in the summer sky.