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Its story

In Ophiuchus, the serpent bearer, pulses a variable blue-white B-class star whose light set out around 1372, during the Western Schism with two opposing popes. Its brightness does not hold still: it oscillates slowly, as if the star itself were breathing calmly. Far hotter and more massive than the Sun, it offers a cool, subtle glow, true to those young stars that live in haste and leave a luminous echo across the sky out of all proportion to their visible size.