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Its story

Serpens is the only constellation split in two by another —Ophiuchus divides it—, and among its scales shines this yellow G-class star 337 light-years away. When its light broke free, the English colonies on the eastern coast of America were beginning to take shape and Newton was publishing his Principia Mathematica. A sister of the Sun forever coiled into the snake that crosses the summer sky.