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Its story

On the curling tail of Scorpius glows an orange K-type ember. Its light set out almost three hundred and forty-three years ago, while Newton was publishing the «Principia» and rearranging the cosmos with three laws. Cooler and calmer than the Sun, it still seems to hold the hush of that silent revolution. To watch it tonight is to peer into an age when the universe first began to obey equations.