About LHS 3154 b
LHS 3154 b is a trash exoplanet. It lies about 51.4 light-years from Earth, has an equilibrium temperature near 344 K, spans roughly 3.69 Earth radii and weighs about 13.15 Earth masses.
About 3.7× the width of Earth.
Trash exoplanet 10 EP
LHS 3154 b
RA 241.6367° · Dec 40.9068° · exoplanet
Score breakdown
· 2 badgesTrash 15 pts → Common
- Confirmed exoplanet +5
- Sub-Neptune +5
Total score 10
5 more points to reach Common.
Badges
- Confirmed exoplanet · +5
- Sub-Neptune · +5
Trivia
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).
- Fastest probe ever. ≈ 80.3 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
- At 10% light speed. ≈ 514 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
- Distance. 51.4 light-years from Earth.
Look-back time
- Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 1975.
Saying hello
- Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 103 years round-trip.
Standing on it
- A year here. A full year lasts just 3.7 Earth days.
By the numbers
- Size. About 3.7× the width of Earth.
- Volume. About 50.2 Earths could fit inside it.
- Mass. About 13.2× the mass of Earth.
- Your weight. You'd weigh about 1.0× your Earth weight standing here.
- Temperature. A scorching 71°C on average.
How we found it
- Discovery. Found by McDonald Observatory using the radial velocity method.
Properties
- density gcc
- 1.44
- discovery facility
- McDonald Observatory
- discovery method
- Radial Velocity
- dist ly
- 51.4041
- eccentricity
- 0.076
- eq temp k
- 343.83
- insolation
- 3.7134
- mass earth
- 13.15
- name
- LHS 3154 b
- orbital period days
- 3.7178
- radius earth
- 3.69
- sys num planets
- 1
How to see it
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 a trash exoplanet
LHS 3154 b scores 10 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the trash tier. Another 5 points would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 2 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet and Sub-Neptune — 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.