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Its story

Along the celestial river of Eridanus shines this white type A star, some 116 light-years away. Its light set out around 1909, when Bleriot crossed the English Channel in a fragile monoplane and the air ceased to be a border. Hotter and more luminous than the Sun, it flows discreetly through the curves of the long southern river the ancients imagined spilling from the foot of Orion.