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Its story

In Ophiuchus, the serpent-bearer, watches an orange K-type star, cooler and more golden than the Sun. Its 375 light-years were born while Descartes was publishing his Discourse on the Method and proclaiming the cogito as a new starting point for Western thought. That amber light travels like a persistent suspicion, reminding us that to gaze at stars is also to doubt what we have learned.