Xi

Its story

Xi Eridani is a white A-type star roughly 209 light-years away, another link in the long current of the river Eridanus. Far from the bright knots of the constellation, it occupies a discreet stretch of the mythological riverbed, near the passage where the river drifts away from Orion and begins its descent toward the southern sky. Its sharp white light marks one of the forgotten bends of the celestial stream.