RA 68.9802° · Dec 16.5093° · star
40 more points to reach Mythic.
Aldebaran is an anomaly variable star. It lies about 66.6 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Tau, shines at apparent magnitude 0.87 and has spectral type K5III.
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.
Look for Aldebaran in the constellation Tau. At apparent magnitude 0.87, it can be glimpsed with the unaided eye under dark skies.
Like any astronomical target, Aldebaran 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.
Aldebaran scores 80 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the anomaly tier. Another 40 points would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 11 science badges — Variable star, Brilliant (mag < 1), Binary star, Has a proper name, On the zodiac, Orange K-type star, Giant star and Deep red 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.