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Its story

Among the coils of Ophiuchus, the sky's healer, beats an orange K-type star. Its light set out nearly five hundred years ago, when Vesalius was publishing his anatomical atlas and refounding European medicine. Cooler than the Sun, its coppery glow falls with the calm of one who has watched whole libraries rise and burn. To gaze at it is to retrace an era that first learned to read the human body from within.