Tau-5

Its story

Tau-5 Serpentis is a yellow-white star about one hundred and seventy light-years away, one of the Tau swarm that traces the head of the Serpent. It belongs to the only constellation in the sky split into two halves, since the serpent passes through the body of Ophiuchus and emerges divided. Its light set out in the years when the railway was beginning to weave the modern geography of the world.