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Common star 15 EP

GL Gl 588

RA 233.0548° · Dec -41.2756° · star

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Score breakdown

· 2 badges
15 pts · Common
Common 24 pts → Uncommon
  • Nearby (<25 ly) +12
  • Star +3
Total score 15

9 more points to reach Uncommon.

Badges

  • Star · +3
  • Nearby (<25 ly) · +12

Trivia

Could we get there?

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

Getting there

  • Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 339.8 thousand years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
  • Fastest probe ever. ≈ 30.2 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
  • At 10% light speed. ≈ 193 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
  • Distance. 19.3 light-years from Earth.

Look-back time

  • Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 2007.

Saying hello

  • Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 38.7 years round-trip.

Properties

absmag
10.445
bv
1.524
constellation
Lup
dist ly
19.3381
mag
9.31
name
GL Gl 588
spect
M0

About GL Gl 588

GL Gl 588 is a common star. It lies about 19.3 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Lup, shines at apparent magnitude 9.31 and has spectral type M0.

GL Gl 588 is a common star worth 15 points across 2 science badges. 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 Gl 588 in the constellation Lup. At apparent magnitude 9.31, a small backyard telescope will bring it into view.

Like any astronomical target, GL Gl 588 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 Gl 588 is a common star

GL Gl 588 scores 15 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the common tier. Another 9 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 2 science badges — Star and Nearby (<25 ly) — 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.