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Common variable star 23 EP

Naos

RA 120.8961° · Dec -40.0031° · star

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Score breakdown

· 3 badges
23 pts · Common
Common 24 pts → Uncommon
  • Distant (>1000 ly) +10
  • Has a proper name +8
  • Variable star +5
Total score 23

1 more point to reach Uncommon.

Badges

  • Variable star · +5
  • Distant (>1000 ly) · +10
  • Has a proper name · +8

Trivia

Could we get there?

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

Getting there

  • Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 19 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
  • Fastest probe ever. ≈ 1.7 million years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
  • At 10% light speed. ≈ 10.8 thousand years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
  • Distance. 1084 light-years from Earth.

Look-back time

  • Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 942.

Saying hello

  • Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 2167 years round-trip.

How we found it

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

Properties

absmag
-5.397
bv
-0.269
constellation
Pup
dist ly
1083.5747
mag
2.21
name
Naos
named
yes
spect
O5IAf
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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.