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Rare star 34 EP

GL GJ 1037

RA 19.4989° · Dec 16.1728° · star

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Score breakdown

· 4 badges
34 pts · Rare
Rare 50 pts → Epic
  • White dwarf (a burnt-out core) +22
  • Intrinsically feeble (Mv > +12) +6
  • Star +3
  • On the zodiac +3
Total score 34

16 more points to reach Epic.

Badges

  • Star · +3
  • On the zodiac · +3
  • White dwarf (a burnt-out core) · +22
  • Intrinsically feeble (Mv > +12) · +6

Trivia

What it actually is

  • Spectral class. Its spectrum reads DQ6 — a white dwarf — the exposed, Earth-sized cinder of a dead star, with nothing left to burn.

Sense of scale

  • In perspective. Inside our stellar backyard: every radio broadcast humanity has ever made has already swept past it.

Find it in the sky

  • How to spot it. At magnitude 13.8 it is far too faint for the eye: this one belongs to cameras and long exposures, over in Pisces.
  • Northern sky. It rides the northern half of the sky — an easier target the further north you are.
  • Best time of year. It stands highest in the middle of the night around October — that's when to go looking.

Could we get there?

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

Getting there

  • Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 898.3 thousand years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
  • Fastest probe ever. ≈ 79.8 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.

Properties

absmag
12.844
bv
0.12
constellation
Psc
dist ly
51.1217
luminosity
0.0006
mag
13.82
name
GL GJ 1037
spect
DQ6

About GL GJ 1037

GL GJ 1037 is a rare star. It lies about 51.1 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Psc, shines at apparent magnitude 13.82 and has spectral type DQ6.

Its spectrum reads DQ6 — a white dwarf — the exposed, Earth-sized cinder of a dead star, with nothing left to burn.

How to see it

Look for GL GJ 1037 in the constellation Psc. At apparent magnitude 13.82, it takes a larger telescope or a long-exposure image to capture.

Like any astronomical target, GL GJ 1037 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 1037 is a rare star

GL GJ 1037 scores 34 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the rare tier. Another 16 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 4 science badges — Star, On the zodiac, White dwarf (a burnt-out core) and Intrinsically feeble (Mv > +12) — 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.