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Its story

In the Serpent, the only constellation split in two by the Serpent-Bearer, shines a yellow star, a distant cousin of the Sun. Its light began its journey 357 years ago, when Vermeer was painting rooms flooded with light in Delft and the Royal Society of London was being founded. Similar in temperature to the Sun, it belongs to that quiet family of stars that, in some other corner of the galaxy, someone might call sun.