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Its story

A red M-type giant flickers within Ophiuchus, far cooler than the Sun yet incomparably larger. Its light, now visible to us, set out some six hundred years ago, when Gutenberg was setting his movable type and the world was preparing for the first explosion of printed knowledge. That reddish pulse arrives, then, as a distant echo of an era that learned to multiply the word while the stars kept on writing in silence.