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Keid
Omicron
2
Eridani, 40 Eridani
An
orange
flare
star
given to sudden flashes of
brightness
. It is a near neighbour to the somewhat better-known
Epsilon Eridani
, and so is close to
Earth's
Solar System
at just sixteen
light years'
distance.
Keid
, a flaring
variable
star
near the 'source' of the
River Eridanus
. Its companion Beid, though it appears close in the sky, is actually more than a hundred
light years
further away than
Keid
.
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