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Epic exoplanet 53 EP

NSVS 14256825 b

RA 305.0019° · Dec 4.6324° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 6 badges
53 pts · Epic
Epic 78 pts → Anomaly
  • Circumbinary (orbits both stars) +14
  • Orbits a hot blue-white star +14
  • Disputed — it may not be there at all +10
  • Distant (over 1,000 light-years) +6
  • Confirmed exoplanet +5
  • Gas giant +4
Total score 53

25 more points to reach Anomaly.

Badges

  • Confirmed exoplanet · +5
  • Distant (over 1,000 light-years) · +6
  • Gas giant · +4
  • Circumbinary (orbits both stars) · +14
  • Orbits a hot blue-white star · +14
  • Disputed — it may not be there at all · +10

Trivia

Hard to believe

  • Denser than iron. It is packed tighter than solid iron — whatever it is made of, it is not ordinary rock.

What it actually is

  • What it is made of. Denser than Earth — a solid world of rock and iron, with no meaningful atmosphere to speak of by mass.

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 13.3 it is far too faint for the eye: this one belongs to cameras and long exposures.
  • Seen from everywhere. It sits almost on the celestial equator, so it can be seen from essentially anywhere on Earth.
  • Best time of year. It stands highest in the middle of the night around July — that's when to go looking.

Could we get there?

  • Verdict. Impossible with our current technology — and the next millennium of it.

Getting there

  • Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 47 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).

Properties

circumbinary
yes
controversial
yes
density gcc
13.3
diameter km
156901.26
discovery facility
Multiple Observatories
discovery method
Eclipse Timing Variations
discovery year
2019
dist ly
2677.3396
eccentricity
0.12
eq temp k
473.47
host star teff
40000
insolation
9.6678
mag
13.296
mass earth
4497.2945
name
NSVS 14256825 b
orbital period days
3225
radius earth
12.3
semi major au
3.12
sys num planets
1
sys num stars
2

About NSVS 14256825 b

NSVS 14256825 b is an epic exoplanet. It lies about 2,677.3 light-years from Earth, shines at apparent magnitude 13.3, has an equilibrium temperature near 473 K and spans roughly 12.3 Earth radii.

Denser than Earth — a solid world of rock and iron, with no meaningful atmosphere to speak of by mass.

How to see it

At apparent magnitude 13.3, it takes a larger telescope or a long-exposure image to capture.

Like any astronomical target, NSVS 14256825 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 NSVS 14256825 b is an epic exoplanet

NSVS 14256825 b scores 53 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the epic tier. Another 25 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, Circumbinary (orbits both stars), Orbits a hot blue-white star and Disputed — it may not be there at all — 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.