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Its story

55 Eridani peers from the River —the winding constellation that descends from Orion's foot toward the south. It is a yellow-white F-type variable star more than 2,100 light-years away, a formidable distance: its light set out before the Colosseum of Rome had even been built. It pulses in subtle cycles, adding modern-instrument variability to a story already millennia old.