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Trash star 3 EP

GL Gl 518

RA 204.1351° · Dec 3.6796° · 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. ≈ 469 thousand years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
  • Fastest probe ever. ≈ 41.7 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
  • At 10% light speed. ≈ 267 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
  • Distance. 26.7 light-years from Earth.

Look-back time

  • Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 1999.

Saying hello

  • Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 53.4 years round-trip.

Properties

absmag
15.085
bv
0.95
constellation
Vir
dist ly
26.6903
mag
14.65
name
GL Gl 518
spect
DZ9

About GL Gl 518

GL Gl 518 is a trash star. It lies about 26.7 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Vir, shines at apparent magnitude 14.65 and has spectral type DZ9.

GL Gl 518 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 518 in the constellation Vir. At apparent magnitude 14.65, it takes a larger telescope or a long-exposure image to capture.

Like any astronomical target, GL Gl 518 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 518 is a trash star

GL Gl 518 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.