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Rare star 35 EP

GL Gl 339.1

RA 138.9987° · Dec 53.4255° · star

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Score breakdown

· 4 badges
35 pts · Rare
Rare 50 pts → Epic
  • White dwarf (a burnt-out core) +22
  • Intrinsically feeble (Mv > +12) +6
  • Never sets (northern circumpolar) +4
  • Star +3
Total score 35

15 more points to reach Epic.

Badges

  • Star · +3
  • Never sets (northern circumpolar) · +4
  • White dwarf (a burnt-out core) · +22
  • Intrinsically feeble (Mv > +12) · +6

Trivia

What it actually is

  • Spectral class. Its spectrum reads DXP7 — 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 Ursa Major.
  • 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 February — 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. ≈ 592.7 thousand years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
  • Fastest probe ever. ≈ 52.7 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.

Properties

absmag
13.777
bv
0.34
constellation
UMa
dist ly
33.7288
luminosity
0.0003
mag
13.85
name
GL Gl 339.1
spect
DXP7

About GL Gl 339.1

GL Gl 339.1 is a rare star. It lies about 33.7 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation UMa, shines at apparent magnitude 13.85 and has spectral type DXP7.

Its spectrum reads DXP7 — a white dwarf — the exposed, Earth-sized cinder of a dead star, with nothing left to burn.

How to see it

Look for GL Gl 339.1 in the constellation UMa. At apparent magnitude 13.85, it takes a larger telescope or a long-exposure image to capture.

Like any astronomical target, GL Gl 339.1 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 Gl 339.1 is a rare star

GL Gl 339.1 scores 35 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the rare tier. Another 15 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 4 science badges — Star, Never sets (northern circumpolar), 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.