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Its story

At 523 light-years, in the Serpent held by Ophiuchus, shines a class A white star whose light set out at the start of the sixteenth century, when Leonardo da Vinci was painting his final canvases and Europe rode the edge of the Renaissance. Its pure white light is born of an atmosphere hotter than the Sun's, still young. It guards the body of the mythic reptile in the northern summer sky.