RA 104.1437° · Dec -79.4202° · star
3 more points to reach Uncommon.
The Men is a common star. It lies about 352.2 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Men, shines at apparent magnitude 5.45 and has spectral type B9.5V.
Its spectrum reads B9.5V — 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 The Men in the constellation Men. At apparent magnitude 5.45, it can be glimpsed with the unaided eye under dark skies.
Like any astronomical target, The Men 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.
The Men scores 19 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the common tier. Another 3 points would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 4 science badges — Star, Naked-eye visible, Hot blue B-type star and Main-sequence star — 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.