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Trash star 3 EP

GL GJ 3968

RA 250.2038° · Dec 36.3167° · star

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Score breakdown

· 1 badge
3 pts · Trash
Trash 15 pts → Common
  • Star +3
Total score 3

12 more points to reach Common.

Badges

  • Star · +3

Trivia

Sense of scale

  • In perspective. Inside our stellar backyard: every radio broadcast humanity has ever made has already swept past it.

Find it in the sky

  • How to spot it. At magnitude 11.4 you'll want a small backyard telescope, over in Hercules.
  • Northern sky. It rides the northern half of the sky — an easier target the further north you are.
  • Best time of year. It stands highest in the middle of the night around May — that's when to go looking.

Could we get there?

  • Verdict. Hopelessly far for any craft humanity can build today.

Getting there

  • Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 1.1 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
  • Fastest probe ever. ≈ 97.9 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
  • At 10% light speed. ≈ 627 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.

Properties

absmag
10.031
constellation
Her
dist ly
62.6862
luminosity
0.0085
mag
11.45
name
GL GJ 3968

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About GL GJ 3968

GL GJ 3968 is a trash star. It lies about 62.7 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Her and shines at apparent magnitude 11.45.

Faint for real, not just for distance: the Sun outshines it about 120 times over.

How to see it

Look for GL GJ 3968 in the constellation Her. At apparent magnitude 11.45, a small backyard telescope will bring it into view.

Like any astronomical target, GL GJ 3968 is best seen from a dark site away from city lights, and when it is above the horizon depends on your latitude and the time of year. The visibility panel above works out tonight's viewing window for your saved location.

Why GL GJ 3968 is a trash star

GL GJ 3968 scores 3 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the trash tier. Another 12 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 1 science badge — Star — each earned for a real, measurable property of the object. Rarity on Spacedle is never random: the more remarkable an object's astrophysics, the more badges it collects, the higher it scores, and the rarer it ranks.