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Common exoplanet 19 EP

K2-33 b

RA 242.5614° · Dec -19.3194° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 3 badges
19 pts · Common
Common 22 pts → Uncommon
  • Tidally locked +10
  • Confirmed exoplanet +5
  • Neptune-like +4
Total score 19

3 more points to reach Uncommon.

Badges

  • Confirmed exoplanet · +5
  • Neptune-like · +4
  • Tidally locked · +10

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.

Sense of scale

  • In perspective. Far away by human standards, yet still a local address inside the Milky Way's spiral arms.

Find it in the sky

  • How to spot it. At magnitude 15.8 it is far too faint for the eye: this one belongs to cameras and long exposures.
  • Southern sky. It rides the southern half of the sky — an easier target the further south 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. ≈ 8 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
  • Fastest probe ever. ≈ 709.2 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.

Properties

diameter km
64291.248
discovery facility
K2
discovery method
Transit
discovery year
2016
dist ly
454.2309
eccentricity
0
eq temp k
850
host star teff
3540
inclination
89.1
insolation
89.6695
mag
15.838
mass earth
1175.971
name
K2-33 b
orbital period days
5.4249
radius earth
5.04
semi major au
0.0409
spect
M3.3
sys num planets
1
sys num stars
1
tidally locked
yes
tidally locked inferred
yes

About K2-33 b

K2-33 b is a common exoplanet. It lies about 454.2 light-years from Earth, shines at apparent magnitude 15.84, has spectral type M3.3 and has an equilibrium temperature near 850 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 15.84, it takes a larger telescope or a long-exposure image to capture.

Like any astronomical target, K2-33 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 K2-33 b is a common exoplanet

K2-33 b scores 19 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the common tier. Another 3 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 3 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Neptune-like and Tidally locked — 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.