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Trash star 3 EP

GL GJ 1120A

RA 135.3228° · Dec 15.2658° · star

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Score breakdown

· 1 badge
3 pts · Trash
Trash 15 pts → Common
  • Star +3
Total score 3

12 more points to reach Common.

Badges

  • Star · +3

Trivia

Could we get there?

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

Getting there

  • Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 915.6 thousand years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
  • Fastest probe ever. ≈ 81.4 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
  • At 10% light speed. ≈ 521 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
  • Distance. 52.1 light-years from Earth.

Look-back time

  • Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 1974.

Saying hello

  • Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 104 years round-trip.

Properties

absmag
7.653
bv
1.285
constellation
Cnc
dist ly
52.1015
mag
8.67
name
GL GJ 1120A
spect
M0V:p...

About GL GJ 1120A

GL GJ 1120A is a trash star. It lies about 52.1 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Cnc, shines at apparent magnitude 8.67 and has spectral type M0V:p....

GL GJ 1120A is a trash star worth 3 points across 1 science badge. Explore its facts, badges and place on the sky map, then add it to your dex on Spacedle.

How to see it

Look for GL GJ 1120A in the constellation Cnc. At apparent magnitude 8.67, it is an easy target for binoculars.

Like any astronomical target, GL GJ 1120A 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.

Why GL GJ 1120A is a trash star

GL GJ 1120A scores 3 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the trash tier. Another 12 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 1 science badge — 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.

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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.