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Common star 23 EP

GL Gl 667A

RA 259.7376° · Dec -34.9898° · star

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Score breakdown

· 3 badges
23 pts · Common
Common 24 pts → Uncommon
  • Nearby (<25 ly) +12
  • Naked-eye visible +8
  • Star +3
Total score 23

1 more point to reach Uncommon.

Badges

  • Star · +3
  • Nearby (<25 ly) · +12
  • Naked-eye visible · +8

Trivia

Could we get there?

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

Getting there

  • Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 391.8 thousand years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
  • Fastest probe ever. ≈ 34.8 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
  • At 10% light speed. ≈ 223 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
  • Distance. 22.3 light-years from Earth.

Look-back time

  • Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 2004.

Saying hello

  • Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 44.6 years round-trip.

Properties

absmag
6.736
bv
1.082
constellation
Sco
dist ly
22.295
mag
5.91
name
GL Gl 667A
spect
K4V

About GL Gl 667A

GL Gl 667A is a common star. It lies about 22.3 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Sco, shines at apparent magnitude 5.91 and has spectral type K4V.

GL Gl 667A is a common star worth 23 points across 3 science badges. Explore its facts, badges and place on the sky map, then add it to your dex on Spacedle.

How to see it

Look for GL Gl 667A in the constellation Sco. At apparent magnitude 5.91, it can be glimpsed with the unaided eye under dark skies.

Like any astronomical target, GL Gl 667A 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 Gl 667A is a common star

GL Gl 667A scores 23 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the common tier. Another 1 point would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 3 science badges — Star, Nearby (<25 ly) and Naked-eye visible — 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.

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Sky imagery and survey data courtesy of Aladin Lite & CDS, Strasbourg. Object data from the NASA Exoplanet Archive, JPL Small-Body Database, and the ATNF Pulsar Catalogue.