About alf Ari b
alf Ari b is a trash exoplanet. It lies about 65.9 light-years from Earth, has an equilibrium temperature near 747 K, spans roughly 13.4 Earth radii and weighs about 572.07 Earth masses.
About 13.4× the width of Earth.
Trash exoplanet 9 EP
alf Ari b
RA 31.7933° · Dec 23.4624° · exoplanet
Score breakdown
· 2 badgesTrash 15 pts → Common
- Confirmed exoplanet +5
- Gas giant +4
Total score 9
6 more points to reach Common.
Badges
- Confirmed exoplanet · +5
- Gas giant · +4
Trivia
Could we get there?
- Verdict. Hopelessly far for any craft humanity can build today.
Getting there
- Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 1.2 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
- Fastest probe ever. ≈ 102.9 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
- At 10% light speed. ≈ 659 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
- Distance. 65.9 light-years from Earth.
Look-back time
- Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 1960.
Saying hello
- Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 132 years round-trip.
Standing on it
- A year here. A full year lasts just 381 Earth days.
By the numbers
- Size. About 13.4× the width of Earth.
- Volume. About 2406 Earths could fit inside it.
- Mass. Roughly 572× Earth's mass — about 1.8 Jupiters.
- Your weight. You'd weigh about 3.2× your Earth weight standing here.
- Temperature. Around 474°C — hotter than a self-cleaning oven.
How we found it
- Discovery. Found by Bohyunsan Optical Astronomical Observatory using the radial velocity method.
Properties
- density gcc
- 1.31
- discovery facility
- Bohyunsan Optical Astronomical Observatory
- discovery method
- Radial Velocity
- dist ly
- 65.9167
- eccentricity
- 0.25
- eq temp k
- 747.22
- insolation
- 59.6537
- mass earth
- 572.07
- name
- alf Ari b
- orbital period days
- 380.8
- radius earth
- 13.4
- sys num planets
- 1
How to see it
Like any astronomical target, alf Ari 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 alf Ari b is a trash exoplanet
alf Ari b scores 9 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the trash tier. Another 6 points would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 2 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet and Gas giant — 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.