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Trash star 9 EP

GL GJ 3943

RA 243.2960° · Dec -70.1589° · star

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Score breakdown

· 2 badges
9 pts · Trash
Trash 15 pts → Common
  • Intrinsically feeble (Mv > +12) +6
  • Star +3
Total score 9

6 more points to reach Common.

Badges

  • Star · +3
  • Intrinsically feeble (Mv > +12) · +6

Trivia

What it actually is

  • Spectral class. Its spectrum reads k-m — a K-type star. Orange K dwarfs are the marathon runners of the galaxy, burning steadily for tens of billions of years.

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 Triangulum Australe.
  • Southern sky only. So far south it never rises for most of the northern hemisphere. To see it you'd have to travel to Chile, South Africa or Australia.
  • 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. ≈ 818.8 thousand years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
  • Fastest probe ever. ≈ 72.8 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.

Properties

absmag
12.975
constellation
TrA
dist ly
46.5937
luminosity
0.0006
mag
13.75
name
GL GJ 3943
spect
k-m

About GL GJ 3943

GL GJ 3943 is a trash star. It lies about 46.6 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation TrA, shines at apparent magnitude 13.75 and has spectral type k-m.

Its spectrum reads k-m — a K-type star. Orange K dwarfs are the marathon runners of the galaxy, burning steadily for tens of billions of years.

How to see it

Look for GL GJ 3943 in the constellation TrA. At apparent magnitude 13.75, it takes a larger telescope or a long-exposure image to capture.

Like any astronomical target, GL GJ 3943 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 3943 is a trash star

GL GJ 3943 scores 9 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the trash tier. Another 6 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 2 science badges — Star 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.