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Its story

It resides in Libra, the celestial scales, the only zodiacal sign represented by an object rather than a living being. A white A-type star, hotter and brighter than the Sun, its light set out some 229 years ago, in the convulsive months of the French Revolution, while Paris was rewriting the rules of liberty. A serene point in a constellation steeped in symbolism, once said to weigh souls in ancient Egyptian myths.