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Epic exoplanet 65 EP

bet Pic b

RA 86.8212° · Dec -51.0661° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 7 badges
65 pts · Epic
Epic 68 pts → Anomaly
  • Directly imaged +16
  • Lava world +14
  • Hot Jupiter +10
  • Long-period world +10
  • Multi-planet system +6
  • Confirmed exoplanet +5
  • Gas giant +4
Total score 65

3 more points to reach Anomaly.

Badges

  • Confirmed exoplanet · +5
  • Gas giant · +4
  • Hot Jupiter · +10
  • Lava world · +14
  • Long-period world · +10
  • Multi-planet system · +6
  • Directly imaged · +16

Trivia

What makes it special

  • Lava world. Its surface is likely an ocean of molten rock.

Could we get there?

  • Verdict. Hopelessly far for any craft humanity can build today.

Getting there

  • Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 1.1 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
  • Fastest probe ever. ≈ 100.6 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
  • At 10% light speed. ≈ 644 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
  • Distance. 64.4 light-years from Earth.

Look-back time

  • Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 1962.

Saying hello

  • Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 129 years round-trip.

Standing on it

  • A year here. A full year lasts about 23.6 Earth years.

By the numbers

  • Size. About 18.5× the width of Earth.
  • Volume. About 6326 Earths could fit inside it.
  • Mass. Roughly 3728× Earth's mass — about 11.7 Jupiters.
  • Your weight. You'd weigh about 10.9× your Earth weight standing here.
  • Temperature. Around 1339°C — hotter than a self-cleaning oven.

How we found it

  • Discovery. Found by Paranal Observatory using the imaging method.

Cosmic context

  • Crowded system. One of at least 2 planets orbiting its star.

Properties

density gcc
3.24
discovery facility
Paranal Observatory
discovery method
Imaging
dist ly
64.3969
eccentricity
0.106
eq temp k
1612
insolation
0.0894
mass earth
3727.8094
name
bet Pic b
orbital period days
8617.5095
radius earth
18.4948
sys num planets
2

About bet Pic b

bet Pic b is an epic exoplanet. It lies about 64.4 light-years from Earth, has an equilibrium temperature near 1,612 K, spans roughly 18.49 Earth radii and weighs about 3,727.81 Earth masses.

Its surface is likely an ocean of molten rock.

How to see it

Like any astronomical target, bet Pic 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 bet Pic b is an epic exoplanet

bet Pic b scores 65 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the epic tier. Another 3 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 7 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Gas giant, Hot Jupiter, Lava world, Long-period world, Multi-planet system and Directly imaged — 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.

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Sky imagery and survey data courtesy of Aladin Lite & CDS, Strasbourg. Object data from the NASA Exoplanet Archive, JPL Small-Body Database, and the ATNF Pulsar Catalogue.