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Trash star 9 EP

GL GJ 2030B

RA 50.8227° · Dec -7.7931° · star

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Score breakdown

· 2 badges
9 pts · Trash
Trash 15 pts → Common
  • Binary star +6
  • Star +3
Total score 9

6 more points to reach Common.

Badges

  • Star · +3
  • Binary star · +6

Trivia

What makes it special

  • Not one star but two. It is a binary: two stars orbiting a shared centre of mass. More than half of all the 'stars' you can see are actually multiple systems.

Sense of scale

  • In perspective. Inside our stellar backyard: every radio broadcast humanity has ever made has already swept past it.

Find it in the sky

  • How to spot it. At magnitude 12.3 it is far too faint for the eye: this one belongs to cameras and long exposures, over in Eridanus.
  • Seen from everywhere. It sits almost on the celestial equator, so it can be seen from essentially anywhere on Earth.
  • Best time of year. It stands highest in the middle of the night around November — that's when to go looking.

Could we get there?

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

Getting there

  • Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 1 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
  • Fastest probe ever. ≈ 92.6 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.

Properties

absmag
11.002
binary
yes
constellation
Eri
dist ly
59.301
luminosity
0.0035
mag
12.3
name
GL GJ 2030B

About GL GJ 2030B

GL GJ 2030B is a trash star. It lies about 59.3 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Eri and shines at apparent magnitude 12.3.

It is a binary: two stars orbiting a shared centre of mass. More than half of all the 'stars' you can see are actually multiple systems.

How to see it

Look for GL GJ 2030B in the constellation Eri. At apparent magnitude 12.3, it takes a larger telescope or a long-exposure image to capture.

Like any astronomical target, GL GJ 2030B 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 GJ 2030B is a trash star

GL GJ 2030B scores 9 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the trash tier. Another 6 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 2 science badges — Star and Binary star — 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.