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Its story

On the back of the Swan burns a blue-white type-B star, far hotter and more massive than the Sun, whose light wavers softly to the rhythm of a cosmic heart. It has been travelling for more than 2,100 years: it set out when Rome was waging the Punic Wars against Carthage and the Mediterranean was being decided by blood and fire. That ancient flame, still young in stellar terms, peers intermittently over our nights.