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Common card · Science
Markarian 421, a Common card
Markarian 421 is a blazar located in the constellation Ursa Major.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 51
- DEF
- 30
- Power
- 81
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 4,300
Power 81 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 25 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- The object is an active galaxy and a BL Lacertae object, and is a strong source of gamma rays.
- It is about 397 million light-years (redshift: z=0.0308 eq.
- 122Mpc) to 434 million light-years from the Earth.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Markarian 421 article was read about 4,300 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 51 and blocks with 30: each hit it takes is cut by 12 %.
How to get Markarian 421
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Markarian 421 (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Sloan Digital Sky Survey, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
