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Uncommon exoplanet 28 EP

LHS 3154 b

RA 241.6367° · Dec 40.9068° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 4 badges
28 pts · Uncommon
Uncommon 34 pts → Rare
  • Tidally locked +10
  • Orbits a red dwarf +8
  • Confirmed exoplanet +5
  • Sub-Neptune +5
Total score 28

6 more points to reach Rare.

Badges

  • Confirmed exoplanet · +5
  • Sub-Neptune · +5
  • Tidally locked · +10
  • Orbits a red dwarf · +8

Trivia

What it actually is

  • Hugging its star. It orbits closer to its star than Mercury does to the Sun, completing a lap in less time than Mercury takes.
  • What it is made of. Lighter than Neptune — a puffed-up ball of hydrogen and helium with no surface anywhere on it to stand on.

Sense of scale

  • In perspective. Inside our stellar backyard: every radio broadcast humanity has ever made has already swept past it.

Find it in the sky

  • How to spot it. At magnitude 17.6 it is far too faint for the eye: this one belongs to cameras and long exposures.
  • Northern sky. It rides the northern half of the sky — an easier target the further north you are.
  • Best time of year. It stands highest in the middle of the night around May — that's when to go looking.

Could we get there?

  • Verdict. Hopelessly far for any craft humanity can build today.

Getting there

  • Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 903.3 thousand years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).

Properties

density gcc
1.44
diameter km
47070.378
discovery facility
McDonald Observatory
discovery method
Radial Velocity
discovery year
2023
dist ly
51.4041
eccentricity
0.076
eq temp k
343.83
host star teff
2861
insolation
3.7134
mag
17.65
mass earth
13.15
name
LHS 3154 b
orbital period days
3.7178
radius earth
3.69
semi major au
0.0226
spect
M6.5
sys num planets
1
sys num stars
1
tidally locked
yes
tidally locked inferred
yes

About LHS 3154 b

LHS 3154 b is an uncommon exoplanet. It lies about 51.4 light-years from Earth, shines at apparent magnitude 17.65, has spectral type M6.5 and has an equilibrium temperature near 344 K.

It orbits closer to its star than Mercury does to the Sun, completing a lap in less time than Mercury takes.

How to see it

At apparent magnitude 17.65, it takes a larger telescope or a long-exposure image to capture.

Like any astronomical target, LHS 3154 b 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.

Why LHS 3154 b is an uncommon exoplanet

LHS 3154 b scores 28 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the uncommon tier. Another 6 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 4 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Sub-Neptune, Tidally locked and Orbits a red dwarf — 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.