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Its story

In Telescopium, a constellation named by Lacaille in the eighteenth century, beats a bluish B-type star whose brightness is not entirely steady: its light flickers in a barely perceptible rhythm. It set out around the year 1265, when the translators of Toledo were still bringing Arabic knowledge into Latin. Far hotter and more massive than the Sun, it vibrates like a distant pulse sustained for nearly eight centuries.