Sulafat

Its story

Sulafat is a blue class-B star in the constellation Lyra, lying 620 light-years away, much farther than its apparent brightness suggests. Its Arabic name means «the tortoise», a direct echo of the Greek myth in which the newborn Hermes stretched strings across a tortoise shell to make the first lyre, later gifted to Apollo. Every glance at this star is, in a way, a glance at the mythical origin of music itself.