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Epic exoplanet 51 EP

HD 95086 b

RA 164.2621° · Dec -68.6673° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 5 badges
51 pts · Epic
Epic 78 pts → Anomaly
  • Directly imaged +16
  • Orbits a hot blue-white star +14
  • Orbits beyond Neptune's distance +12
  • Confirmed exoplanet +5
  • Gas giant +4
Total score 51

27 more points to reach Anomaly.

Badges

  • Confirmed exoplanet · +5
  • Gas giant · +4
  • Directly imaged · +16
  • Orbits a hot blue-white star · +14
  • Orbits beyond Neptune's distance · +12

Trivia

What it actually is

  • 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 7.4 it is just past naked-eye reach — ordinary binoculars will pull it in.
  • Southern sky only. So far south it never rises for most of the northern hemisphere. To see it you'd have to travel to Chile, South Africa or Australia.
  • 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. ≈ 4.9 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
  • Fastest probe ever. ≈ 439.1 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.

Properties

density gcc
4.07
diameter km
164554.98
discovery facility
Paranal Observatory
discovery method
Imaging
discovery year
2013
dist ly
281.2375
eq temp k
1000
host star teff
7595
insolation
0.0021
mag
7.36
mass earth
1589
name
HD 95086 b
radius earth
12.9
semi major au
55.7
spect
A8 III
sys num planets
1
sys num stars
1

About HD 95086 b

HD 95086 b is an epic exoplanet. It lies about 281.2 light-years from Earth, shines at apparent magnitude 7.36, has spectral type A8 III and has an equilibrium temperature near 1,000 K.

Its density says rock, though lighter than Earth's mix: probably less iron, or a thick shell of water and ice over the top.

How to see it

At apparent magnitude 7.36, it is an easy target for binoculars.

Like any astronomical target, HD 95086 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 HD 95086 b is an epic exoplanet

HD 95086 b scores 51 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the epic tier. Another 27 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 5 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Gas giant, Directly imaged, Orbits a hot blue-white star and Orbits beyond Neptune's distance — 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.