About HATS-50 b
HATS-50 b is a rare exoplanet. It lies about 2,468.2 light-years from Earth, has an equilibrium temperature near 1,275 K, spans roughly 12.67 Earth radii and weighs about 123.95 Earth masses.
About 12.7× the width of Earth.
Rare exoplanet 38 EP
HATS-50 b
RA 300.4281° · Dec -26.0776° · exoplanet
Score breakdown
· 5 badgesRare 46 pts → Epic
- Hot Jupiter +10
- Distant (>1000 ly) +10
- Eccentric orbit +9
- Confirmed exoplanet +5
- Gas giant +4
Total score 38
8 more points to reach Epic.
Badges
- Confirmed exoplanet · +5
- Gas giant · +4
- Hot Jupiter · +10
- Eccentric orbit · +9
- Distant (>1000 ly) · +10
Trivia
Could we get there?
- Verdict. Impossible with our current technology — and the next millennium of it.
Getting there
- Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 43.4 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
- Fastest probe ever. ≈ 3.9 million years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
- At 10% light speed. ≈ 24.7 thousand years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
- Distance. 2468 light-years from Earth.
Look-back time
- Look-back time. Its light left before the last ice age ended.
Saying hello
- Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 4936 years round-trip.
Standing on it
- A year here. A full year lasts just 3.8 Earth days.
By the numbers
- Size. About 12.7× the width of Earth.
- Volume. About 2032 Earths could fit inside it.
- Mass. Roughly 124× Earth's mass — about 0.4 Jupiters.
- Your weight. You'd weigh about 0.8× your Earth weight standing here.
- Density. Less dense than water — drop it in a big enough ocean and it would float.
- Temperature. Around 1002°C — hotter than a self-cleaning oven.
How we found it
- Discovery. Found by HATSouth using the transit method.
Properties
- density gcc
- 0.33
- discovery facility
- HATSouth
- discovery method
- Transit
- dist ly
- 2468.1594
- eccentricity
- 0.516
- eq temp k
- 1275.39
- insolation
- 625.3023
- mass earth
- 123.9537
- name
- HATS-50 b
- orbital period days
- 3.8297
- radius earth
- 12.6662
- sys num planets
- 1
How to see it
Like any astronomical target, HATS-50 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 HATS-50 b is a rare exoplanet
HATS-50 b scores 38 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the rare tier. Another 8 points would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 5 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Gas giant, Hot Jupiter, Eccentric orbit and Distant (>1000 ly) — 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.