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Its story

White and discreet, it pulses along the flank of Ophiuchus as a point the eye barely separates from the background. It is a binary system —two suns bound by gravity, circling one another 84 light-years away. The light that crosses the atmosphere tonight left when the Wright brothers were still working out the lift equations of their first glider, in the years before Kitty Hawk.