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TOI-2048 b

RA 237.9241° · Dec 52.3063° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 3 badges
14 pts · Trash
Trash 15 pts → Common
  • Confirmed exoplanet +5
  • Sub-Neptune +5
  • Found by TESS +4
Total score 14

1 more point to reach Common.

Badges

  • Confirmed exoplanet · +5
  • Sub-Neptune · +5
  • Found by TESS · +4

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. Too light to be solid rock and too heavy to be all gas: most likely a deep global ocean or a thick steamy envelope over a rocky core.

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 11.4 you'll want a small backyard telescope.
  • 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. ≈ 6.7 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).

Properties

density gcc
2.26
diameter km
33293.682
discovery facility
Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)
discovery method
Transit
discovery year
2022
dist ly
380.1903
eccentricity
0.13
eq temp k
646
host star teff
5185
inclination
89.41
insolation
29.035
mag
11.431
mass earth
7.32
name
TOI-2048 b
orbital period days
13.7902
radius earth
2.61
spect
G V
sys num planets
1
sys num stars
1

About TOI-2048 b

TOI-2048 b is a trash exoplanet. It lies about 380.2 light-years from Earth, shines at apparent magnitude 11.43, has spectral type G V and has an equilibrium temperature near 646 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 11.43, a small backyard telescope will bring it into view.

Like any astronomical target, TOI-2048 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 TOI-2048 b is a trash exoplanet

TOI-2048 b scores 14 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the trash tier. Another 1 point would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 3 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Sub-Neptune and Found by TESS — 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.