Anomaly exoplanet 71 EP

TOI-561 b

RA 148.1852° · Dec 6.2161° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 7 badges

71 pts · Anomaly

Anomaly 95 pts → Mythic

Ultra-hot Jupiter +26
Ultra-short period +14
Super-Earth +8
Blasted by starlight +8
Multi-planet system +6
Confirmed exoplanet +5
Found by TESS +4

Total score 71

24 more points to reach Mythic.

Badges

Confirmed exoplanet · +5
Super-Earth · +8
Ultra-hot Jupiter · +26
Ultra-short period · +14
Multi-planet system · +6
Blasted by starlight · +8
Found by TESS · +4

Trivia

What makes it special

Ultra-hot Jupiter. So hot that iron vaporises and rains back down as molten metal.

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. ≈ 436.9 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
At 10% light speed. ≈ 2798 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
Distance. 280 light-years from Earth.

Look-back time

Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 1746.

Saying hello

Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 560 years round-trip.

Standing on it

A year here. A full year lasts just 0.4 Earth days.

By the numbers

Size. About 1.4× the width of Earth.
Mass. About 2× the mass of Earth.
Your weight. You'd weigh about 1.0× your Earth weight standing here.
Temperature. Around 2319 K — hot enough to vaporise iron.

How we found it

Discovery. Found by Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) using the transit method.

Cosmic context

Crowded system. One of at least 4 planets orbiting its star.

Properties

density gcc: 4.1
discovery facility: Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)
discovery method: Transit
dist ly: 279.8386
eccentricity: 0
eq temp k: 2319
insolation: 4709
mass earth: 2.02
name: TOI-561 b
orbital period days: 0.4466
radius earth: 1.397
sys num planets: 4

About TOI-561 b

TOI-561 b is an anomaly exoplanet. It lies about 279.8 light-years from Earth, has an equilibrium temperature near 2,319 K, spans roughly 1.4 Earth radii and weighs about 2.02 Earth masses.

So hot that iron vaporises and rains back down as molten metal.

How to see it

Like any astronomical target, TOI-561 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 TOI-561 b is an anomaly exoplanet

TOI-561 b scores 71 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the anomaly tier. Another 24 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 7 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Super-Earth, Ultra-hot Jupiter, Ultra-short period, Multi-planet system, Blasted by starlight and Found by TESS — 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.