Eta

Its story

Eta Indi is a white A-type star only 79 light-years away, a relatively close neighbor in the small constellation of the Indian. Lacaille placed it in his southern atlas among allegorical figures of distant peoples. Modest to the unaided eye, its cosmic proximity nonetheless makes it one of the nearby suns in our patch of the Galaxy, a sharp white light in a seldom-visited fragment of the sky.