RA 146.0504° · Dec -27.7695° · star
10 more points to reach Rare.
The Ant is an uncommon star. It lies about 339.4 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Ant, shines at apparent magnitude 4.78 and has spectral type A7V+....
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 The Ant in the constellation Ant. At apparent magnitude 4.78, it can be glimpsed with the unaided eye under dark skies.
Like any astronomical target, The Ant 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.
The Ant scores 24 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the uncommon tier. Another 10 points would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 5 science badges — Star, Naked-eye visible, Binary star, White A-type star and Main-sequence 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.