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Its story

In Ophiuchus, the serpent bearer, shines a yellow-white F-class star whose light set out a century and a half ago, in the years when photography was leaving the daguerreotype behind and learning to fix the sky on plates. Slightly hotter and more luminous than the Sun, it gives off a pale, steady glow. Its discretion makes it one of those quiet pieces of the summer sky, fit for those who know how to look beyond the row of the most famous stars.