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Its story

In the starlit depth of the Swan burns a blue type-B star, an intensely hot ember, far more massive and luminous than the Sun. Its light has been travelling for 1,664 years: it set off when the Western Roman Empire was giving its last gasps, even before the official fall of Rome in 476. It is a flame of late Antiquity still alight, crossing the centuries like an inheritance of fire.