hip-82369

Its story

20 Ophiuchi is a yellow-white F-type star sitting just over a hundred light-years away, within the body of the Serpent Bearer. Hotter than the Sun and still young by stellar standards, it shines with the crisp, metallic clarity typical of its class. Its present light set out in the early twentieth century —when the first photographic plates were beginning to register the deep sky— and now returns each summer above Europe's southern horizon.