Tau-6

Its story

Tau-6 Serpentis shines 606 light-years away within the Serpent, the only constellation of the classical catalogue split into two halves —Serpens Caput and Serpens Cauda— by the body of nearby Ophiuchus. It is a yellow G-type giant, already drifting beyond the main sequence, with an expanded surface that hints at the future fate of many Sun-like stars. Its warm light coils quietly among the scales drawn into the eastern half of the summer firmament.