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Its story

In the serpent-bearer Ophiuchus glimmers this yellow G-type star, around 360 light-years distant. Its light departed near 1665, when Newton was retreating to Woolsthorpe to escape the plague and Hooke was publishing his Micrographia. It is a G more luminous than the Sun, likely a giant that has already left a serene youth behind. Its soft but steady yellow glow arrives as an echo of the seventeenth-century scientific revolution.