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Its story

Deep within Sagittarius, toward the very heart of the Milky Way, shines a white type-A star whose light departed 265 years ago, when Mozart was a child and Haydn was defining the symphony. Hotter and more luminous than the Sun, it unfolds that crisp whiteness so characteristic of its class. It shares the sky with the dust thickets and stellar clouds of our galaxy's densest region, which makes it a precise point amid myriads.