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Uncommon exoplanet 23 EP

NGC 2682 YBP 1194 b

RA 132.7533° · Dec 11.8147° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 4 badges
23 pts · Uncommon
Uncommon 34 pts → Rare
  • Orbits a Sun-like star +8
  • Distant (over 1,000 light-years) +6
  • Confirmed exoplanet +5
  • Gas giant +4
Total score 23

11 more points to reach Rare.

Badges

  • Confirmed exoplanet · +5
  • Distant (over 1,000 light-years) · +6
  • Gas giant · +4
  • Orbits a Sun-like star · +8

Trivia

Hard to believe

  • It would float. It is less dense than water. Drop it in a big enough ocean and the whole world would bob on the surface.

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 14.6 it is far too faint for the eye: this one belongs to cameras and long exposures.
  • 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 February — that's when to go looking.

Could we get there?

  • Verdict. Impossible with our current technology — and the next millennium of it.

Properties

density gcc
0.3
diameter km
156901.26
discovery facility
Multiple Observatories
discovery method
Radial Velocity
discovery year
2014
dist ly
2847.081
eccentricity
0.3
host star teff
5780
mag
14.569
mass earth
101.7056
name
NGC 2682 YBP 1194 b
orbital period days
6.959
radius earth
12.3
spect
G5 V
sys num planets
1
sys num stars
1

About NGC 2682 YBP 1194 b

NGC 2682 YBP 1194 b is an uncommon exoplanet. It lies about 2,847.1 light-years from Earth, shines at apparent magnitude 14.57, has spectral type G5 V and spans roughly 12.3 Earth radii.

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 14.57, it takes a larger telescope or a long-exposure image to capture.

Like any astronomical target, NGC 2682 YBP 1194 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 NGC 2682 YBP 1194 b is an uncommon exoplanet

NGC 2682 YBP 1194 b scores 23 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the uncommon tier. Another 11 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 4 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Distant (over 1,000 light-years), Gas giant and Orbits a Sun-like star — 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.