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Its story

60 Eridani shines with a class-K orange hue along the winding course of Eridanus, the celestial river that meanders south from Orion. At 236 light-years away, this cool giant radiates from a surface far more extended than the Sun's. Its light, cast into space late in the eighteenth century, departed while William Herschel was still polishing mirrors and discovering Uranus, unaware he had opened a new window onto the solar system.