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Its story

Delta Indi is a yellow-white subgiant about 188 light-years away, in the southern constellation of the Indian, one of the figures Dutch navigators of the late sixteenth century drew while charting the unknown southern skies. Recent spectra suggest it is actually two stars — an A8 and an F3 — too close to separate with small telescopes. A single point of light to the eye, two engines burning within.