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Its story

26 Ophiuchi is a yellow-white F-type star roughly 110 light-years away in the great figure of the Serpent-Bearer, that handler of snakes who straddles the ecliptic. Its surface, a touch hotter than the Sun's, gives it a clean tone reaching magnitude 5.74 from a moderate distance. The light received tonight set out around 1916, the years in which Einstein was publishing the general theory of relativity.