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Its story

56 Eridani is a B-type variable star set within the long course of the river Eridanus. Its hot, blue-tinted atmosphere modulates its brightness near magnitude 5.78, a quiet pulsation only photometric monitoring reveals with clarity. Eridanus winds from the feet of Orion toward southern horizons, and this blue variable adds another restless flicker to a river of stars that ancient myth imagined as an eternal flow.