Star in the constellation Eridanus
45 Eridani is a single[ 7] star located around 700 light years away from the Sun in the equatorial constellation of Eridanus . It is visible to the naked eye as a faint, orange-hued star with an apparent visual magnitude of 4.91.[ 2] This body is moving away from the Earth with a heliocentric radial velocity of +15 km/s.[ 1]
The stellar classification for this star is K0/1 III,[ 3] which indicates this is an aging K-type giant star that has exhausted the hydrogen supply at its core and expanded. It has reached 50[ 1] times the Sun's radius and is radiating 788[ 1] times the luminosity of the Sun from its swollen photosphere at an effective temperature of 4,322 K.[ 1]
References
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