About TIC 38828280 b
TIC 38828280 b is a trash exoplanet. It lies about 934.2 light-years from Earth, spans roughly 2.63 Earth radii, weighs about 7.4 Earth masses and completes an orbit every 4.86 days.
About 2.6× the width of Earth.
Trash exoplanet 14 EP
TIC 38828280 b
RA 68.3926° · Dec -62.1697° · exoplanet
Score breakdown
· 3 badgesTrash 15 pts → Common
- Confirmed exoplanet +5
- Sub-Neptune +5
- Found by TESS +4
Total score 14
1 more point to reach Common.
Badges
- Confirmed exoplanet · +5
- Sub-Neptune · +5
- Found by TESS · +4
Trivia
Could we get there?
- Verdict. Hopelessly far for any craft humanity can build today.
Getting there
- Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 16.4 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
- Fastest probe ever. ≈ 1.5 million years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
- At 10% light speed. ≈ 9342 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
- Distance. 934 light-years from Earth.
Look-back time
- Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 1092.
Saying hello
- Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 1868 years round-trip.
Standing on it
- A year here. A full year lasts just 4.9 Earth days.
By the numbers
- Size. About 2.6× the width of Earth.
- Volume. About 18.1 Earths could fit inside it.
- Mass. About 7.4× the mass of Earth.
- Your weight. You'd weigh about 1.1× your Earth weight standing here.
How we found it
- Discovery. Found by Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) using the transit method.
Properties
- density gcc
- 2.24
- discovery facility
- Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)
- discovery method
- Transit
- dist ly
- 934.1597
- mass earth
- 7.4
- name
- TIC 38828280 b
- orbital period days
- 4.8556
- radius earth
- 2.627
- sys num planets
- 1
How to see it
Like any astronomical target, TIC 38828280 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 TIC 38828280 b is a trash exoplanet
TIC 38828280 b scores 14 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the trash tier. Another 1 point would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 3 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Sub-Neptune 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.