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Its story
In Eridanus, the celestial river, flows the light of a white star. Its glow crossed some 213 years before reaching us: it set out around 1813, when Napoleon lost the Battle of Leipzig and Goya painted his disasters of war. Hotter and more massive than the Sun, its clean light seems to drift along the dark course of the southern river.
- Constellation
- Eridanus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.76
- Distance
- 213.5 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 52.480° · Dec -42.634°
- Catalogue
- HIP 16285 · HD 21882
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