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Its story

An orange K-type star shines quietly within Serpens, cooler than the Sun and bearing a warm, amber-like hue. Its light set out almost five centuries ago, when Copernicus published «De revolutionibus» and overturned Earth s place in the cosmos. After 479 light-years, that warm gleam arrives as a belated nod to the first man who dared to displace us from the centre and redraw the map of the sky.