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Its story

Libra is the only zodiacal constellation that depicts not a creature but an object — a pair of scales weighing the days and nights of the sky. Between its arms glows this orange star, cooler than our Sun and generously sized. Its light took about 302 years to arrive: it set out when Bach was still composing and Baroque music was filling European courts with fugues and toccatas. Today that orange radiance feels in tune with those measured cadences — with the very idea of balance sustained through time.