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Rare star 40 EP

GL GJ 4305B

RA 343.9832° · Dec 5.7563° · star

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Score breakdown

· 5 badges
40 pts · Rare
Rare 50 pts → Epic
  • White dwarf (a burnt-out core) +22
  • Binary star +6
  • Intrinsically feeble (Mv > +12) +6
  • Star +3
  • On the zodiac +3
Total score 40

10 more points to reach Epic.

Badges

  • Star · +3
  • Binary star · +6
  • On the zodiac · +3
  • White dwarf (a burnt-out core) · +22
  • Intrinsically feeble (Mv > +12) · +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.

What it actually is

  • Spectral class. Its spectrum reads DB — a white dwarf — the exposed, Earth-sized cinder of a dead star, with nothing left to burn.

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 15.7 it is far too faint for the eye: this one belongs to cameras and long exposures, over in Pisces.
  • 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 September — 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. ≈ 1.3 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).

Properties

absmag
13.966
binary
yes
constellation
Psc
dist ly
72.479
luminosity
0.0002
mag
15.7
name
GL GJ 4305B
spect
DB

About GL GJ 4305B

GL GJ 4305B is a rare star. It lies about 72.5 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Psc, shines at apparent magnitude 15.7 and has spectral type DB.

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 4305B in the constellation Psc. At apparent magnitude 15.7, it takes a larger telescope or a long-exposure image to capture.

Like any astronomical target, GL GJ 4305B 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 4305B is a rare star

GL GJ 4305B scores 40 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the rare tier. Another 10 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 5 science badges — Star, Binary star, On the zodiac, White dwarf (a burnt-out core) and Intrinsically feeble (Mv > +12) — 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.