hip-18606

Its story

Along the winding Eridanus shines a yellow class G star some 152 light-years away, a spectral cousin of the Sun. Its light set out around 1873, the year James Clerk Maxwell published his Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism, a work that would give rise to modern electromagnetism. That warm, almost familiar glow has crossed a century and a half of science to arrive as a yellow echo along the long course of Eridanus.