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Its story

18 Aquilae is a variable blue B-type star that pulses quietly in the Eagle, not far from Altair. Its surface burns at temperatures well above the Sun's, lending it the blue-white tint typical of massive, youthful stars. Some 698 light-years away, its light departed in the mid-fourteenth century, crossing space as Europe was only beginning to recover from the Black Death.