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Gliese Gl 188B
Gliese Gl 188B is a star in the constellation Taurus 51.8 ly from Earth. At magnitude 5.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 52 years ago.
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temperature
5.70
apparent magnitude
1.15× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G4 V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
52 years
at light speed from Earth
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as hot as the Sun
1.15×
the Sun's light output
4.70
absolute magnitude
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Star data from the HYG database v4.2 (Astronexus, CC BY-SA 4.0). Temperature and colour computed by gravityfinder from the B-V colour index; the illustration is generated from that temperature, not a photograph.