Common exoplanet 17 EP

HD 97048 b

RA 167.0133° · Dec -77.6549° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 3 badges

17 pts · Common

Common 24 pts → Uncommon

Frozen world +8
Confirmed exoplanet +5
Gas giant +4

Total score 17

7 more points to reach Uncommon.

Badges

Confirmed exoplanet · +5
Gas giant · +4
Frozen world · +8

Trivia

What makes it special

Frozen world. A deep-frozen world far from its star's warmth.

Could we get there?

Verdict. Hopelessly far for any craft humanity can build today.

Getting there

Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 10.5 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
Fastest probe ever. ≈ 936.3 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
At 10% light speed. ≈ 5997 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
Distance. 600 light-years from Earth.

Look-back time

Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 1426.

Saying hello

Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 1199 years round-trip.

By the numbers

Size. About 13.3× the width of Earth.
Volume. About 2353 Earths could fit inside it.
Mass. Roughly 795× Earth's mass — about 2.5 Jupiters.
Your weight. You'd weigh about 4.5× your Earth weight standing here.
Temperature. A frigid -210°C — colder than dry ice.

How we found it

Discovery. Found by Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) using the disk kinematics method.

Properties

density gcc: 1.86
discovery facility: Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA)
discovery method: Disk Kinematics
dist ly: 599.6606
eq temp k: 63.44
insolation: 0.0024
mass earth: 794.575
name: HD 97048 b
radius earth: 13.3
sys num planets: 1

About HD 97048 b

HD 97048 b is a common exoplanet. It lies about 599.7 light-years from Earth, has an equilibrium temperature near 63 K, spans roughly 13.3 Earth radii and weighs about 794.58 Earth masses.

A deep-frozen world far from its star's warmth.

How to see it

Like any astronomical target, HD 97048 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 97048 b is a common exoplanet

HD 97048 b scores 17 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the common tier. Another 7 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 3 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Gas giant and Frozen world — 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.