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Trash star 9 EP

GL Gl 580B

RA 228.4599° · Dec -1.3520° · 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 7.3 it is just past naked-eye reach — ordinary binoculars will pull it in, over in Serpens.
  • 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 May — 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. ≈ 991.6 thousand years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
  • Fastest probe ever. ≈ 88.1 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.

Properties

absmag
6.16
binary
yes
constellation
Ser
dist ly
56.4282
luminosity
0.2992
mag
7.35
name
GL Gl 580B

About GL Gl 580B

GL Gl 580B is a trash star. It lies about 56.4 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Ser and shines at apparent magnitude 7.35.

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 580B in the constellation Ser. At apparent magnitude 7.35, it is an easy target for binoculars.

Like any astronomical target, GL Gl 580B 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 580B is a trash star

GL Gl 580B 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.