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A fact from 51 Eridani appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 26 August 2015 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the star 51 Eridani hosts a Jupiter-like planet, the smallest extrasolar planet ever directly imaged?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2015/August. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/51 Eridani.

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Two conflicting numbers?

A surface temperature of 7200K and it's yellow white? That can't be right. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 144.131.103.180 (talk) 08:40, 15 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Yes....it is an F-type main-sequence star Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 09:43, 15 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]