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Its story

60 Serpentis burns in Serpens, the only constellation split into two halves —the Head and the Tail— by the intervening figure of Ophiuchus, the serpent bearer. It is an orange K-type giant some 230 light-years away, well past its nuclear youth, with a warmer hue and a radius far greater than the Sun's. Its light reaches us after two long centuries of silent travel across the summer sky.