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Its story

It glitters white-blue in Sagittarius, the constellation pointing toward the very heart of the Milky Way, about 699 light years away. Its light set out around 1326, when Italian humanists were starting to rediscover the classical world and the kingdom of Granada still ruled the south of the peninsula. B-type, young and very hot, its atmosphere vibrates at temperatures more than twice those of the Sun. An electric flame among the swarms of stars of the galactic center.