Rare exoplanet 37 EP

HD 108236 b

RA 186.5741° · Dec -51.3631° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 5 badges

37 pts · Rare

Rare 46 pts → Epic

Richly packed system +14
Super-Earth +8
Multi-planet system +6
Confirmed exoplanet +5
Found by TESS +4

Total score 37

9 more points to reach Epic.

Badges

Confirmed exoplanet · +5
Super-Earth · +8
Multi-planet system · +6
Richly packed system · +14
Found by TESS · +4

Trivia

What makes it special

Packed system. Crammed into a system of five or more planets.

Could we get there?

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

Getting there

Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 3.7 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
Fastest probe ever. ≈ 329 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
At 10% light speed. ≈ 2107 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
Distance. 211 light-years from Earth.

Look-back time

Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 1815.

Saying hello

Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 421 years round-trip.

Standing on it

A year here. A full year lasts just 3.8 Earth days.

By the numbers

Size. About 1.6× the width of Earth.
Volume. About 4.2 Earths could fit inside it.
Mass. About 3.2× the mass of Earth.
Your weight. You'd weigh about 1.2× your Earth weight standing here.
Temperature. Around 826°C — hotter than a self-cleaning oven.

How we found it

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

Cosmic context

Crowded system. One of at least 5 planets orbiting its star.

Properties

density gcc: 4.23
discovery facility: Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)
discovery method: Transit
dist ly: 210.6896
eccentricity: 0.045
eq temp k: 1099
insolation: 312.1807
mass earth: 3.24
name: HD 108236 b
orbital period days: 3.796
radius earth: 1.615
sys num planets: 5

About HD 108236 b

HD 108236 b is a rare exoplanet. It lies about 210.7 light-years from Earth, has an equilibrium temperature near 1,099 K, spans roughly 1.61 Earth radii and weighs about 3.24 Earth masses.

Crammed into a system of five or more planets.

How to see it

Like any astronomical target, HD 108236 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 HD 108236 b is a rare exoplanet

HD 108236 b scores 37 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the rare tier. Another 9 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 5 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Super-Earth, Multi-planet system, Richly packed system 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.