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Its story

6 Eridani pulses at the northern tip of the river Eridanus, not far from the hunter Orion who marks the winter sky. It is an orange K-type star, a giant with a tempered surface and a golden tone, whose light needs six hundred and sixty-three years to cross the void to Earth. Its photons set out when the great Mediterranean navigators had yet to cross the oceans of the known world.