Star
Epsilon Eridani
Epsilon Eridani is an orange star 10.5 light-years away, one of the nearest there are, seen as it was 10 years ago, shining at 29.3% of the Sun’s brightness.
The third-closest star you can see with the naked eye, with a giant planet and a dust belt like our Kuiper belt. Project Ozma listened to it in 1960.
See it live
It is on the live 3D map, where it really is.
Key facts
- Distance
- 10.5 light-years
- Brightness from Earth
- magnitude 3.72
- Spectral type
- K2V
- Catalogue
- HIP 16537
See it from here
Bright enough to see with your own eyes from a dark place.
How the map draws it
Drawn as a point of light, sized by how bright it looks from where you are — the kind of thing, not this exact one.