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GL Gl 359

RA 145.2587° · Dec 22.0250° · star

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Score breakdown

· 1 badge
3 pts · Trash
Trash 15 pts → Common
  • Star +3
Total score 3

12 more points to reach Common.

Badges

  • Star · +3

Trivia

Could we get there?

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

Getting there

  • Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 697.3 thousand years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
  • Fastest probe ever. ≈ 62 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
  • At 10% light speed. ≈ 397 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
  • Distance. 39.7 light-years from Earth.

Look-back time

  • Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 1986.

Saying hello

  • Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 79.4 years round-trip.

Properties

absmag
13.804
bv
1.78
constellation
Leo
dist ly
39.6785
mag
14.23
name
GL Gl 359
spect
M4

About GL Gl 359

GL Gl 359 is a trash star. It lies about 39.7 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Leo, shines at apparent magnitude 14.23 and has spectral type M4.

GL Gl 359 is a trash star worth 3 points across 1 science badge. 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 359 in the constellation Leo. At apparent magnitude 14.23, it takes a larger telescope or a long-exposure image to capture.

Like any astronomical target, GL Gl 359 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 359 is a trash star

GL Gl 359 scores 3 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the trash tier. Another 12 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 1 science badge — 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.

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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.