If you do that, then maybe you will see why I am not so foolish after all to have followed what seems sometimes only a faint star.

This is a supernova, which when seen from Earth, appears as a bright new star in a place where none (or only a very faint star) appeared to be before.

In this representative color picture, the hot blue pool of light seen surrounding this binary system is energized by the hot surface of the faint star.