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Trash star 7 EP

GL GJ 3902

RA 229.8281° · Dec 67.8555° · star

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Score breakdown

· 2 badges
7 pts · Trash
Trash 15 pts → Common
  • Never sets (northern circumpolar) +4
  • Star +3
Total score 7

8 more points to reach Common.

Badges

  • Star · +3
  • Never sets (northern circumpolar) · +4

Trivia

What it actually is

  • Spectral class. Its spectrum reads m — an M-type red star — and M stars are the silent majority: roughly three of every four stars in the galaxy are one.

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 13.4 it is far too faint for the eye: this one belongs to cameras and long exposures, over in Ursa Minor.
  • Never sets. So far north that from Britain, Canada or northern Europe it never dips below the horizon — it is up every clear night of the year.
  • Best time of year. It stands highest in the middle of the night around May — 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. ≈ 1.3 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
  • Fastest probe ever. ≈ 113.2 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.

Properties

absmag
11.706
constellation
UMi
dist ly
72.479
luminosity
0.0018
mag
13.44
name
GL GJ 3902
spect
m

About GL GJ 3902

GL GJ 3902 is a trash star. It lies about 72.5 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation UMi, shines at apparent magnitude 13.44 and has spectral type m.

Its spectrum reads m — an M-type red star — and M stars are the silent majority: roughly three of every four stars in the galaxy are one.

How to see it

Look for GL GJ 3902 in the constellation UMi. At apparent magnitude 13.44, it takes a larger telescope or a long-exposure image to capture.

Like any astronomical target, GL GJ 3902 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 3902 is a trash star

GL GJ 3902 scores 7 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the trash tier. Another 8 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 2 science badges — Star and Never sets (northern circumpolar) — 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.