Eridani
- genitive of Eridanus.
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For the three stars with detected astrospheres, named 70 Ophiuchi, epsilon Eridani, and 61 Cygni, the researchers estimated their mass loss rates to be 66.5±11.1, 15.6±4.4, and 9.6±4.1 times the solar mass loss rate, respectively.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 12, 2024
Around 10 years later, the smallest directly imaged planet to date was discovered: 51 Eridani b, only two times the size of Jupiter.
From Scientific American ● May 11, 2023
In what he called Project Ozma, after the Wizard of Oz, Dr. Drake alternately pointed the telescope at a pair of sunlike stars, Tau Ceti and Epsilon Eridani, each about 11 light-years from Earth.
From New York Times ● Sep. 5, 2022
A good example of a typical white dwarf is the nearby star 40 Eridani B. Its surface temperature is a relatively hot 12,000 K, but its luminosity is only 1/275 LSun.
From Textbooks ● Oct. 13, 2016
The remarkable triple star 40 Eridani has a proper motion of four seconds annually.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 648, June 2, 1888. by Various
