Mu

Its story

Mu Serpentis belongs to the head of the Serpent, the figure split in two halves that the Serpent Bearer holds across the summer sky. A white type A star roughly 170 light-years away, its crisp, cool-hued light is the signature of an atmosphere hotter than the Sun's. Modest to the unaided eye, its position nonetheless serves as one of the markers tracing the serpent's brow, just west of the splendid Northern Crown.