Trash star 13 EP

HD 160956

RA 265.5283° · Dec 17.0335° · star

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Score breakdown

· 2 badges

13 pts · Trash

Trash 15 pts → Common

Distant (>1000 ly) +10
Star +3

Total score 13

2 more points to reach Common.

Badges

Star · +3
Distant (>1000 ly) · +10

Trivia

Could we get there?

Verdict. Impossible with our current technology — and the next millennium of it.

Getting there

Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 21.6 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
Fastest probe ever. ≈ 1.9 million years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
At 10% light speed. ≈ 12.3 thousand years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
Distance. 1231 light-years from Earth.

Look-back time

Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 795.

Saying hello

Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 2462 years round-trip.

Properties

absmag: 0.386
bv: 0.279
constellation: Her
dist ly: 1230.7774
mag: 8.27
name: HD 160956
spect: A5

About HD 160956

HD 160956 is a trash star. It lies about 1,230.8 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Her, shines at apparent magnitude 8.27 and has spectral type A5.

HD 160956 is a trash star worth 13 points across 2 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 HD 160956 in the constellation Her. At apparent magnitude 8.27, it is an easy target for binoculars.

Like any astronomical target, HD 160956 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 HD 160956 is a trash star

HD 160956 scores 13 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the trash tier. Another 2 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 2 science badges — Star and Distant (>1000 ly) — 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.