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Its story

It is a yellow G-type star in Ophiuchus, a near neighbour in cosmic terms: little more than half a hundred light-years away. The light arriving tonight left around 1972, when the Apollo rovers were leaving tracks in lunar dust. It shares colour and temperament with the Sun, though each star has its own biography. Ophiuchus, the serpent-bearer, sustains it without turning it into a landmark.