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Trash star 13 EP

HD 40231

RA 89.3597° · Dec -3.9895° · star

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Score breakdown

· 2 badges
13 pts · Trash
Trash 15 pts → Common
  • Distant (>1000 ly) +10
  • Star +3
Total score 13

2 more points to reach Common.

Badges

  • Star · +3
  • Distant (>1000 ly) · +10

Trivia

Could we get there?

  • Verdict. Impossible with our current technology — and the next millennium of it.

Getting there

  • Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 24.5 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
  • Fastest probe ever. ≈ 2.2 million years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
  • At 10% light speed. ≈ 13.9 thousand years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
  • Distance. 1394 light-years from Earth.

Look-back time

  • Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 632.

Saying hello

  • Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 2788 years round-trip.

Properties

absmag
1.236
bv
0.403
constellation
Mon
dist ly
1393.829
mag
9.39
name
HD 40231
spect
F5
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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.