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Rare star 34 EP

GL GJ 3667

RA 172.3185° · Dec 18.2855° · 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 DC8 — 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 Leo.
  • 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 March — 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. ≈ 502.8 thousand years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
  • Fastest probe ever. ≈ 44.7 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.

Properties

absmag
14.075
constellation
Leo
dist ly
28.6101
luminosity
0.0002
mag
13.79
name
GL GJ 3667
spect
DC8

About GL GJ 3667

GL GJ 3667 is a rare star. It lies about 28.6 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Leo, shines at apparent magnitude 13.79 and has spectral type DC8.

Its spectrum reads DC8 — 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 3667 in the constellation Leo. At apparent magnitude 13.79, it takes a larger telescope or a long-exposure image to capture.

Like any astronomical target, GL GJ 3667 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 3667 is a rare star

GL GJ 3667 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.