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Its story

16 Librae inhabits the ancient Scales —the constellation Rome carved from the claws of neighbouring Scorpius—. It is a yellow-white F-type star almost 88 light-years away, slightly hotter and more luminous than the Sun. Its light set out before the first automobiles were built, and crosses now the quiet of the autumn zodiac to arrive as a calm point between the imagined pans of justice.