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Uncommon card · Science
Barnard's Star, an Uncommon card
Barnard's Star is a small red dwarf star in the constellation of Ophiuchus.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 78
- DEF
- 95
- Power
- 173
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 140,000
Power 173 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 90 % of WikiCards cards.
Barnard's Star quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Barnard's Star card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Its ______ mass is about 16% of the Sun's, and it has 19% of the Sun's diameter.
Answer
stellar. Its stellar mass is about 16% of the Sun's, and it has 19% of the Sun's diameter. From the Barnard's Star article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Botany. Botany 89 · Electrocardiography 85 · Denis Diderot 81 · Barnard's Star 78 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- At a distance of 5.96 light-years from Earth, it is the fourth-nearest-known individual star to the Sun after the three components of the Alpha Centauri system, and is the closest star in the northern celestial hemisphere.
- Its stellar mass is about 16% of the Sun's, and it has 19% of the Sun's diameter.
- Despite its proximity, the star has a dim apparent visual magnitude of +9.5 and is invisible to the unaided eye, it is much brighter in the infrared than in visible light.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Barnard's Star article was read about 140,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 78 and blocks with 95: each hit it takes is cut by 38 %.
How to get Barnard's Star
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
More Science cards
Cards close in power
The cards just above and just below Barnard's Star in the power ranking, all domains together.
- TessellationUncommon · Arts · ATK 78 DEF 95
- CoinUncommon · Society · ATK 83 DEF 90
- Waste managementUncommon · Society · ATK 84 DEF 89
- Denis DiderotUncommon · Arts · ATK 81 DEF 92
- Eadweard MuybridgeUncommon · Arts · ATK 85 DEF 88
- FriendshipUncommon · Society · ATK 78 DEF 95
Card lists
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- Tier listS and A tiers by power (ATK + DEF)
Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Barnard's Star (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Steve Quirk, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
