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Trash star 11 EP

Gar

RA 191.9860° · Dec 9.7514° · star

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Score breakdown

· 2 badges
11 pts · Trash
Trash 15 pts → Common
  • Has a proper name +8
  • Star +3
Total score 11

4 more points to reach Common.

Badges

  • Star · +3
  • Has a proper name · +8

Trivia

Could we get there?

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

Getting there

  • Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 479.7 thousand years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
  • Fastest probe ever. ≈ 42.6 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
  • At 10% light speed. ≈ 273 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
  • Distance. 27.3 light-years from Earth.

Look-back time

  • Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 1999.

Saying hello

  • Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 54.6 years round-trip.

How we found it

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

Properties

absmag
11.776
bv
1.563
constellation
Vir
dist ly
27.3002
mag
11.39
name
Gar
named
yes
spect
M4
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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.