Epic exoplanet 54 EP

HD 98649 b

RA 170.2148° · Dec -23.2181° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 6 badges

54 pts · Epic

Epic 68 pts → Anomaly

Denser than iron +18
Long-period world +10
Eccentric orbit +9
Frozen world +8
Confirmed exoplanet +5
Gas giant +4

Total score 54

14 more points to reach Anomaly.

Badges

Confirmed exoplanet · +5
Gas giant · +4
Frozen world · +8
Long-period world · +10
Eccentric orbit · +9
Denser than iron · +18

Trivia

What makes it special

Frozen world. A deep-frozen world far from its star's warmth.
Heavyweight. Packed denser than solid iron.

Could we get there?

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

Getting there

Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 2.4 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
Fastest probe ever. ≈ 214.8 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
At 10% light speed. ≈ 1375 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
Distance. 138 light-years from Earth.

Look-back time

Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 1888.

Saying hello

Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 275 years round-trip.

Standing on it

A year here. A full year lasts about 14.7 Earth years.

By the numbers

Size. About 12.5× the width of Earth.
Volume. About 1953 Earths could fit inside it.
Mass. Roughly 3083× Earth's mass — about 9.7 Jupiters.
Your weight. You'd weigh about 19.7× your Earth weight standing here.
Density. Denser than solid iron.
Temperature. A frigid -159°C — colder than dry ice.

How we found it

Discovery. Found by La Silla Observatory using the radial velocity method.

Cosmic context

Wild orbit. Its highly elliptical path swings between scorching and frozen each lap.

Properties

density gcc: 8.67
discovery facility: La Silla Observatory
discovery method: Radial Velocity
dist ly: 137.5488
eccentricity: 0.852
eq temp k: 114.22
insolation: 0.0272
mass earth: 3082.9355
name: HD 98649 b
orbital period days: 5384
radius earth: 12.5
sys num planets: 1

About HD 98649 b

HD 98649 b is an epic exoplanet. It lies about 137.5 light-years from Earth, has an equilibrium temperature near 114 K, spans roughly 12.5 Earth radii and weighs about 3,082.94 Earth masses.

A deep-frozen world far from its star's warmth.

How to see it

Like any astronomical target, HD 98649 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 98649 b is an epic exoplanet

HD 98649 b scores 54 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the epic tier. Another 14 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 6 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Gas giant, Frozen world, Long-period world, Eccentric orbit and Denser than iron — 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.