Iot

Its story

Iota Lyrae is a hot blue B-type star in the small Lyre, that constellation crowned in northern summer by Vega. About 896 light-years away, its sharp light crosses a far greater distance than its famous neighbour’s, arriving faint but unmistakably blue. It shares its sky with the Ring Nebula, M57, one of the most photographed remnants of the end of a Sun-like star; yet Iota, far hotter, is still walking the young half of its own road, with any farewell still very far ahead.