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Its story

In the robust body of Hercules shines this white A-type star. Its light left the hero around 436 years ago, near 1590, when Shakespeare was beginning to write his first plays and Londons theaters were turning into machines for inventing worlds. Hotter and brighter than the Sun, it displays the pure white of young stars. Hercules, that immense yet discreet constellation, shelters it among modest stars, far from the great names of the northern sky.