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Its story

In the vast constellation Ophiuchus, the serpent-bearer, shines a yellow G-type star, a close spectral kin of the Sun. Its light travelled barely 88 years to reach here, setting out in the European interwar period, when the first radio telescopes were being inaugurated and quantum mechanics was finishing its redrawing of matter. It arrives now in a warm, familiar tone, like a twin and reserved sun.