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Trash variable star 5 EP

GL GJ 3850

RA 217.2549° · Dec 12.1223° · star

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Score breakdown

· 1 badge
5 pts · Trash
Trash 15 pts → Common
  • Variable star +5
Total score 5

10 more points to reach Common.

Badges

  • Variable star · +5

Trivia

Could we get there?

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

Getting there

  • Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 5.6 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
  • Fastest probe ever. ≈ 501.2 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
  • At 10% light speed. ≈ 3210 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
  • Distance. 321 light-years from Earth.

Look-back time

  • Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 1705.

Saying hello

  • Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 642 years round-trip.

Properties

absmag
3.464
bv
0.913
constellation
Boo
dist ly
321.0197
mag
8.43
name
GL GJ 3850
spect
G5

About GL GJ 3850

GL GJ 3850 is a trash variable star. It lies about 321 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Boo, shines at apparent magnitude 8.43 and has spectral type G5.

GL GJ 3850 is a trash variable star worth 5 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 3850 in the constellation Boo. At apparent magnitude 8.43, it is an easy target for binoculars.

Like any astronomical target, GL GJ 3850 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 3850 is a trash variable star

GL GJ 3850 scores 5 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the trash tier. Another 10 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 1 science badge — Variable 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.