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Trash star 3 EP

HD 222538

RA 355.4099° · Dec -50.4240° · 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

Could we get there?

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

Getting there

  • Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 11.2 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
  • Fastest probe ever. ≈ 992.7 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
  • At 10% light speed. ≈ 6358 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
  • Distance. 636 light-years from Earth.

Look-back time

  • Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 1390.

Saying hello

  • Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 1272 years round-trip.

Properties

absmag
1.611
bv
0.978
constellation
Phe
dist ly
635.7818
mag
8.06
name
HD 222538
spect
G8III

About HD 222538

HD 222538 is a trash star. It lies about 635.8 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Phe, shines at apparent magnitude 8.06 and has spectral type G8III.

HD 222538 is a trash star worth 3 points across 1 science badge. 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 222538 in the constellation Phe. At apparent magnitude 8.06, it is an easy target for binoculars.

Like any astronomical target, HD 222538 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 222538 is a trash star

HD 222538 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.

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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.