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Common exoplanet 19 EP

HATS-22 b

RA 174.0099° · Dec -29.5434° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

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

3 more points to reach Uncommon.

Badges

  • Confirmed exoplanet · +5
  • Gas giant · +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.
  • What it is made of. Its density says rock, though lighter than Earth's mix: probably less iron, or a thick shell of water and ice over the top.

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 13.4 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 March — 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. ≈ 13.2 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).

Properties

density gcc
3.89
diameter km
136263.9862
discovery facility
HATSouth
discovery method
Transit
discovery year
2017
dist ly
748.5867
eccentricity
0.079
eq temp k
858
host star teff
4803
inclination
87.96
insolation
111.299
mag
13.397
mass earth
870.8542
name
HATS-22 b
orbital period days
4.7228
radius earth
10.6822
semi major au
0.0503
spect
K V
sys num planets
1
sys num stars
1
tidally locked
yes
tidally locked inferred
yes

About HATS-22 b

HATS-22 b is a common exoplanet. It lies about 748.6 light-years from Earth, shines at apparent magnitude 13.4, has spectral type K V and has an equilibrium temperature near 858 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 13.4, it takes a larger telescope or a long-exposure image to capture.

Like any astronomical target, HATS-22 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 HATS-22 b is a common exoplanet

HATS-22 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, Gas giant 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.