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Its story

In the small Corona Australis pulses a yellow-white F-type star, a variable with a gentle beat. Its light departed two hundred and twenty-three years ago, when Volta was presenting the first electric pile and electricity came down from the clouds to the workbench. A touch hotter than the Sun, it flickers discreetly, like a lantern swaying in the night breeze. Each vibration brings the first crackle of a steady current.