★ Star Gliese 518 | Nearby stars catalogue

White dwarf Gliese 518 is located 27.2 light years away from the Sun. It is a single star of spectral class DZ10, that has 55 of solar mass. For now, there are no known exoplanets in this system.

Gliese 518

White dwarf (spectral class DZ10)

Mass: 0.55 M Sun

Size: 0.013 R Sun | 0.1 R Jupiter

Temperature: 4940 K | 0.85 T Sun

Age: 5.19 billions years | 1.13 Sun

(No known exoplanets yet)

Photometry

K
2.1

H
1.6

J
1.2

Grp
0.8

I
0.8

G
0.6

V
0.5

Gbp
0.5

B
0.4

U
0.3

More about Gliese 518

      Nearby star Gliese 518 can be found in northern celestial hemisphere, however it is too dim to be seen with the naked eye or even a small telescope.  Gliese 518 is much smaller than the Sun and temperature in its outer envelope is around 4940 K (4667 °C), which is about 85 % of Suns temperature.

Other designations of this star
Wolf 489, WD 1334+039, LHS 46, G 062-053, LFT 1023, LTT 13961, NLTT 34618, G 62-53, G 64-4, EGGR 100, 2MASS J13363181+0340458, USNO-B1.0 0936-00229354, Gaia EDR3 3713594960831605760

External sources

Sources

Simbad database (Wolf 489 )

Gaia database (Gaia EDR3 3713594960831605760)

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