RA 101.2872° · Dec -16.7161° · star
29 more points to reach Mythic.
Sirius is an anomaly star. It lies about 8.6 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation CMa, shines at apparent magnitude -1.44 and has spectral type A0m....
One of the closest objects of its kind to the Sun — a first port of call for any interstellar mission we ever build.
Look for Sirius in the constellation CMa. At apparent magnitude -1.44, it can be glimpsed with the unaided eye under dark skies.
Like any astronomical target, Sirius 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.
Sirius scores 91 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the anomaly tier. Another 29 points would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 7 science badges — Star, Stellar next door (<10 ly), Brilliant (mag < 1), Binary star, Has a proper name, White A-type star and Sirius, the brightest star in the sky — 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.