EV Lacertae

Measured

Distance

16 light-years

Constellation

Lacerta

Position (J2000)

RA 22h 46m 50s, Dec +44.33°

How far, from the Sun

16.5 light-years. To cross it:

• Light16.5 years
• Voyager 1's speed293,000 years
• Driving at 100 km/h178 million years

Voyager 1 at the speed it moved outward over the year to 2026-10-25 (JPL Horizons). Driving: nonstop, never refuelling.

Facts

• In 2008 the Swift satellite caught it giving off a flare thousands of times stronger than the Sun's largest.
• Its distance comes from a Gaia parallax: the tiny yearly shift in its position as the Earth circles the Sun.

Where this comes from

• Gaia DR3 parallax 197.9573 ± 0.0220 mas, Gaia DR3 1934263333784036736 (Gaia Collaboration 2023, A&A 674, A1)
• This research has made use of the SIMBAD database, CDS, Strasbourg, France (Wenger et al. 2000, A&AS 143, 9).
• This research has made use of the VizieR catalogue access tool, CDS, Strasbourg, France (DOI: 10.26093/cds/vizier).

Every catalogue Ouranos draws is credited on the credits page.