hip-90052

Its story

Ophiuchus is the serpent-bearer, an enormous constellation crossed by the ecliptic that many consider the thirteenth zodiacal sign. There lives this A-class white star, four hundred and forty light-years away. Its light set out around 1585, when Walter Raleigh was founding the short-lived Roanoke colony in present-day North Carolina. A-type, atmosphere of clean white, one more among the stars tracing the body of the celestial healer.