RA 271.6578° · Dec -50.0915° · star
28 more points to reach Anomaly.
The Ara is an epic star. It lies about 813.4 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Ara, shines at apparent magnitude 3.65 and has spectral type B2Ib.
Its spectrum reads B2Ib — a blue-white B-type star, with a surface tens of thousands of degrees hot and a life measured in tens of millions of years.
Look for The Ara in the constellation Ara. At apparent magnitude 3.65, it can be glimpsed with the unaided eye under dark skies.
Like any astronomical target, The Ara 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.
The Ara scores 50 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the epic tier. Another 28 points would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 6 science badges — Star, Naked-eye visible, Hot blue B-type star, Supergiant, Blue-white star and Intrinsically luminous (Mv < −2) — 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.