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Its story

In the head of the Scorpion burns a blue variable giant whose light took 1,029 years to cross the void. When it left, Avicenna in Persia was writing his «Canon of Medicine» and Andalusian learning was flourishing in Córdoba under the caliphate. A class-B sun —blue-white, far hotter and more luminous than ours—, it modulates its brightness with a subtle heartbeat, a reminder that even the youngest stellar bonfires breathe to the rhythm of inner forces.