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The star Alpha Eridani, a B3 dwarf of magnitude 0.45, ninth-brightest in the sky, 139 l.y. away. Its name comes from Arabic and means ‘river's end’.
From: Achernar in A Dictionary of Astronomy »
Subjects: Astronomy and Astrophysics.
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