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Trash variable star 13 EP

Merope

RA 56.5816° · Dec 23.9484° · star

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Score breakdown

· 2 badges
13 pts · Trash
Trash 15 pts → Common
  • Has a proper name +8
  • Variable star +5
Total score 13

2 more points to reach Common.

Badges

  • Variable star · +5
  • Has a proper name · +8

Trivia

Could we get there?

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

Getting there

  • Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 6.7 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
  • Fastest probe ever. ≈ 593.5 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
  • At 10% light speed. ≈ 3801 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
  • Distance. 380 light-years from Earth.

Look-back time

  • Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 1646.

Saying hello

  • Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 760 years round-trip.

How we found it

  • Named. Notable enough to have earned a proper name, not just a catalogue number.

Properties

absmag
-1.193
bv
-0.051
constellation
Tau
dist ly
380.1351
mag
4.14
name
Merope
named
yes
spect
B6IV
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Sky imagery and survey data courtesy of Aladin Lite & CDS, Strasbourg. Object data from the NASA Exoplanet Archive, JPL Small-Body Database, and the ATNF Pulsar Catalogue.