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Its story

Pavo is the southern peacock, a constellation invented by the Dutch navigators Keyser and de Houtman at the end of the 16th century. There lives this A-type white star, two hundred and twenty-nine light-years away. Its light set out around 1796, when Edward Jenner was successfully testing the first smallpox vaccine. Sharp atmosphere, just enough brightness, no surprises: a star fulfilling its decorative role in the peacock's tail.