RA 83.3818° · Dec 18.5402° · star
23 more points to reach Anomaly.
120 Tau is an epic variable star. It lies about 1,553.1 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Tau, shines at apparent magnitude 5.67 and has spectral type B2IV-Ve.
Its spectrum reads B2IV-Ve — a blue-white B-type star, with a surface tens of thousands of degrees hot and a life measured in tens of millions of years.
Look for 120 Tau in the constellation Tau. At apparent magnitude 5.67, it can be glimpsed with the unaided eye under dark skies.
Like any astronomical target, 120 Tau 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.
120 Tau scores 55 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the epic tier. Another 23 points would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 10 science badges — Variable star, Distant (over 1,000 light-years), Naked-eye visible, On the zodiac, Hot blue B-type star, Subgiant (leaving the main sequence), Blue-white star and Intrinsically luminous (Mv < −2) — 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.