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Rare star 35 EP

HD 89925

RA 155.2845° · Dec -58.4838° · star

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Score breakdown

· 4 badges
35 pts · Rare
Rare 50 pts → Epic
  • Supergiant +18
  • Sun-like G-type star +8
  • Distant (over 1,000 light-years) +6
  • Star +3
Total score 35

15 more points to reach Epic.

Badges

  • Star · +3
  • Distant (over 1,000 light-years) · +6
  • Sun-like G-type star · +8
  • Supergiant · +18

Trivia

What it actually is

  • Spectral class. Its spectrum reads G0Iab — a G-type star: the very same spectral class as our own Sun.
  • Where it is in life. It is a supergiant. Drop it where the Sun is and its surface would engulf the inner planets.

Sense of scale

  • In perspective. Far away by human standards, yet still a local address inside the Milky Way's spiral arms.

Find it in the sky

  • How to spot it. At magnitude 7.2 it is just past naked-eye reach — ordinary binoculars will pull it in, over in Carina.
  • Southern sky. It rides the southern half of the sky — an easier target the further south you are.
  • Best time of year. It stands highest in the middle of the night around February — that's when to go looking.

Could we get there?

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

Getting there

  • Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 29.9 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).

Properties

absmag
-1.333
bv
0.872
constellation
Car
dist ly
1698.7291
luminosity
297.3035
mag
7.25
name
HD 89925
spect
G0Iab

About HD 89925

HD 89925 is a rare star. It lies about 1,698.7 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Car, shines at apparent magnitude 7.25 and has spectral type G0Iab.

Its spectrum reads G0Iab — a G-type star: the very same spectral class as our own Sun.

How to see it

Look for HD 89925 in the constellation Car. At apparent magnitude 7.25, it is an easy target for binoculars.

Like any astronomical target, HD 89925 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 HD 89925 is a rare star

HD 89925 scores 35 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the rare tier. Another 15 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 4 science badges — Star, Distant (over 1,000 light-years), Sun-like G-type star and Supergiant — 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.