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Its story

At the starlit heart of the Swan shines a white type-A star, hotter and brighter than the Sun, with a glow as polished as fresh-fallen snow. Its light has been on the road for 576 years: it set off when Constantinople was about to fall to the Ottomans in 1453, closing a chapter of European history. It has soared over the empire of time to gaze down today, untouched, upon our night.