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Rare exoplanet 43 EP

WASP-93 b

RA 9.4587° · Dec 51.2888° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 6 badges
43 pts · Rare
Rare 50 pts → Epic
  • Lava world +14
  • Tidally locked +10
  • Distant (over 1,000 light-years) +6
  • Confirmed exoplanet +5
  • Gas giant +4
  • Blasted by starlight +4
Total score 43

7 more points to reach Epic.

Badges

  • Confirmed exoplanet · +5
  • Distant (over 1,000 light-years) · +6
  • Gas giant · +4
  • Lava world · +14
  • Tidally locked · +10
  • Blasted by starlight · +4

Trivia

What makes it special

  • Lava world. Its surface is almost certainly an ocean of molten rock, kept liquid by the star it hugs.

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 11 you'll want a small backyard telescope.
  • 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 September — that's when to go looking.

Properties

density gcc
0.479
diameter km
228345.8405
discovery facility
SuperWASP
discovery method
Transit
discovery year
2016
dist ly
1207.7035
eccentricity
0
eq temp k
1942
host star teff
6700
inclination
81.18
insolation
2531.1336
mag
10.966
mass earth
467.2101
name
WASP-93 b
orbital period days
2.7325
radius earth
17.9008
semi major au
0.0421
spect
F4
sys num planets
1
sys num stars
1
tidally locked
yes
tidally locked inferred
yes

About WASP-93 b

WASP-93 b is a rare exoplanet. It lies about 1,207.7 light-years from Earth, shines at apparent magnitude 10.97, has spectral type F4 and has an equilibrium temperature near 1,942 K.

Its surface is almost certainly an ocean of molten rock, kept liquid by the star it hugs.

How to see it

At apparent magnitude 10.97, a small backyard telescope will bring it into view.

Like any astronomical target, WASP-93 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 WASP-93 b is a rare exoplanet

WASP-93 b scores 43 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the rare tier. Another 7 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 6 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Distant (over 1,000 light-years), Gas giant, Lava world, Tidally locked and Blasted by starlight — 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.