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HD 211970 b

RA 335.5662° · Dec -54.5596° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 2 badges
10 pts · Trash
Trash 15 pts → Common
  • Confirmed exoplanet +5
  • Sub-Neptune +5
Total score 10

5 more points to reach Common.

Badges

  • Confirmed exoplanet · +5
  • Sub-Neptune · +5

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. Inside our stellar backyard: every radio broadcast humanity has ever made has already swept past it.

Find it in the sky

  • How to spot it. At magnitude 10.2 you'll want a small backyard telescope.
  • 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 August — 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. ≈ 752.4 thousand years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).

Properties

density gcc
1.46
diameter km
46687.692
discovery facility
Las Campanas Observatory
discovery method
Radial Velocity
discovery year
2019
dist ly
42.8168
eccentricity
0.15
eq temp k
398.77
host star teff
4127
insolation
4.2125
mag
10.24
mass earth
13
name
HD 211970 b
orbital period days
25.201
radius earth
3.66
semi major au
0.143
spect
K7 V
sys num planets
1
sys num stars
1

About HD 211970 b

HD 211970 b is a trash exoplanet. It lies about 42.8 light-years from Earth, shines at apparent magnitude 10.24, has spectral type K7 V and has an equilibrium temperature near 399 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 10.24, a small backyard telescope will bring it into view.

Like any astronomical target, HD 211970 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 211970 b is a trash exoplanet

HD 211970 b scores 10 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the trash tier. Another 5 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 2 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet and Sub-Neptune — 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.