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Common star 15 EP

GL GJ 1002

RA 1.6823° · Dec -7.5393° · star

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Score breakdown

· 2 badges
15 pts · Common
Common 24 pts → Uncommon
  • Nearby (<25 ly) +12
  • Star +3
Total score 15

9 more points to reach Uncommon.

Badges

  • Star · +3
  • Nearby (<25 ly) · +12

Trivia

Could we get there?

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

Getting there

  • Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 269.3 thousand years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
  • Fastest probe ever. ≈ 23.9 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
  • At 10% light speed. ≈ 153 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
  • Distance. 15.3 light-years from Earth.

Look-back time

  • Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 2011.

Saying hello

  • Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 30.7 years round-trip.

Properties

absmag
15.39
bv
1.98
constellation
Cet
dist ly
15.3267
mag
13.75
name
GL GJ 1002
spect
M5-5.5

About GL GJ 1002

GL GJ 1002 is a common star. It lies about 15.3 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Cet, shines at apparent magnitude 13.75 and has spectral type M5-5.5.

GL GJ 1002 is a common star worth 15 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 GL GJ 1002 in the constellation Cet. At apparent magnitude 13.75, it takes a larger telescope or a long-exposure image to capture.

Like any astronomical target, GL GJ 1002 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 GJ 1002 is a common star

GL GJ 1002 scores 15 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the common tier. Another 9 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 2 science badges — Star and Nearby (<25 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.

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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.