ARICNS data | Magnitude 12.12 Apparent magnitude (V) 12.12 | |
Similar NGC 4038 Group, NGC 4027, Eta Corvi, NGC 4361, Gamma Corvi | ||
LHS 2520, also known as Gliese 3707, is a red dwarf star in the constellation Corvus. With an apparent magnitude of 12.12. it is too faint to be seen with the unaided eye. A cool star of spectral type M3.5V, it has a surface temperature of 3024 K. The star was too faint to have had its parallax measured by the Hipparcos satellite. Earth-based measurement gives its parallax as 77.93 ± 2.41 milliarcseconds, yielding a distance of 42 ± 1 light-years.
In Action Comics #14 (January 2013), which was published 7 November 2012, Neil Degrasse Tyson appears in the story, in which he determines that Superman's home planet, Krypton, orbited LHS 2520. Tyson assisted DC Comics in selecting a real-life star that would be an appropriate parent star to Krypton, and picked the star in Corvus, and which is the mascot of Superman's high school, the Smallville Crows.