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Rare exoplanet 35 EP

TOI-3288 b

RA 297.1103° · Dec -43.0180° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 5 badges
35 pts · Rare
Rare 50 pts → Epic
  • Two suns in its sky +12
  • Tidally locked +10
  • Confirmed exoplanet +5
  • Gas giant +4
  • Found by TESS +4
Total score 35

15 more points to reach Epic.

Badges

  • Confirmed exoplanet · +5
  • Gas giant · +4
  • Tidally locked · +10
  • Found by TESS · +4
  • Two suns in its sky · +12

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. 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 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 July — 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. ≈ 11.5 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).

Properties

density gcc
1.6
diameter km
156138.5275
discovery facility
Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)
discovery method
Transit
discovery year
2025
dist ly
653.9428
eccentricity
0.021
eq temp k
973
host star teff
4072
inclination
89
insolation
213.8
mag
14.979
mass earth
536.1765
multi star system
yes
name
TOI-3288 b
orbital period days
1.4339
radius earth
12.2402
semi major au
0.0228
spect
M0±0.5
sys num planets
1
sys num stars
2
tidally locked
yes
tidally locked inferred
yes

About TOI-3288 b

TOI-3288 b is a rare exoplanet. It lies about 653.9 light-years from Earth, shines at apparent magnitude 14.98, has spectral type M0±0.5 and has an equilibrium temperature near 973 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 14.98, it takes a larger telescope or a long-exposure image to capture.

Like any astronomical target, TOI-3288 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-3288 b is a rare exoplanet

TOI-3288 b scores 35 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the rare tier. Another 15 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 5 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Gas giant, Tidally locked, Found by TESS and Two suns in its sky — 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.