Trash star 13 EP

HD 168137

RA 274.7341° · Dec -13.8086° · 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. ≈ 24.5 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
Fastest probe ever. ≈ 2.2 million years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
At 10% light speed. ≈ 13.9 thousand years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
Distance. 1394 light-years from Earth.

Look-back time

Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 632.

Saying hello

Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 2788 years round-trip.

Properties

absmag: 0.786
bv: 0.4
constellation: Ser
dist ly: 1393.829
mag: 8.94
name: HD 168137
spect: B3Ib

About HD 168137

HD 168137 is a trash star. It lies about 1,393.8 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Ser, shines at apparent magnitude 8.94 and has spectral type B3Ib.

HD 168137 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 168137 in the constellation Ser. At apparent magnitude 8.94, it is an easy target for binoculars.

Like any astronomical target, HD 168137 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 168137 is a trash star

HD 168137 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.