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Its story

In Ophiuchus, the serpent-bearer, glows an orange giant whose light set out around 1465, when Gutenberg's workshops were already beginning to multiply books across Europe. Cooler than the Sun and hundreds of times more luminous, it offers that coppery glow of evolved stars. Its soft, ancient glow crosses more than five centuries to settle in a constellation lying near the centre of the Milky Way.