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Trash star 9 EP

GL Gl 400B

RA 161.3389° · Dec 38.5129° · 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 12.2 it is far too faint for the eye: this one belongs to cameras and long exposures, over in Leo Minor.
  • Northern sky. It rides the northern half of the sky — an easier target the further north you are.
  • Best time of year. It stands highest in the middle of the night around March — 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. ≈ 808.7 thousand years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
  • Fastest probe ever. ≈ 71.9 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.

Properties

absmag
11.452
binary
yes
constellation
LMi
dist ly
46.0216
luminosity
0.0023
mag
12.2
name
GL Gl 400B

About GL Gl 400B

GL Gl 400B is a trash star. It lies about 46 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation LMi and shines at apparent magnitude 12.2.

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 Gl 400B in the constellation LMi. At apparent magnitude 12.2, it takes a larger telescope or a long-exposure image to capture.

Like any astronomical target, GL Gl 400B 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 400B is a trash star

GL Gl 400B 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.