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Its story

One hundred and eleven light-years away, 45 Ophiuchi burns with the yellow-white glow of an F-type subgiant beginning to swell, shining nearly twenty times brighter than the Sun. Ophiuchus, the great serpent-bearer, carries it on his southern flank, right along the blurred border where his stars dissolve into those of Scorpius. The light reaching us tonight set out around the time the first radio antennas were being raised on Earth.