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Rare exoplanet 41 EP

TRAPPIST-1 g

RA 346.6264° · Dec -5.0435° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 4 badges
41 pts · Rare
Rare 46 pts → Epic
  • Earth-sized +16
  • Richly packed system +14
  • Multi-planet system +6
  • Confirmed exoplanet +5
Total score 41

5 more points to reach Epic.

Badges

  • Confirmed exoplanet · +5
  • Earth-sized · +16
  • Multi-planet system · +6
  • Richly packed system · +14

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. ≈ 712.4 thousand years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
  • Fastest probe ever. ≈ 63.3 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
  • At 10% light speed. ≈ 405 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
  • Distance. 40.5 light-years from Earth.

Look-back time

  • Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 1985.

Saying hello

  • Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 81.1 years round-trip.

Standing on it

  • A year here. A full year lasts just 12.4 Earth days.

By the numbers

  • Size. About 1.1× the width of Earth.
  • Mass. About 1.3× the mass of Earth.
  • Your weight. You'd weigh about 1.0× your Earth weight standing here.
  • Temperature. A frigid -76°C — colder than dry ice.

How we found it

  • Discovery. Found by Multiple Observatories using the transit method.

Cosmic context

  • Crowded system. One of at least 7 planets orbiting its star.

Properties

density gcc
5.056
discovery facility
Multiple Observatories
discovery method
Transit
dist ly
40.5408
eccentricity
0.0021
eq temp k
197.3
insolation
0.252
mass earth
1.321
name
TRAPPIST-1 g
orbital period days
12.3524
radius earth
1.129
sys num planets
7

About TRAPPIST-1 g

TRAPPIST-1 g is a rare exoplanet. It lies about 40.5 light-years from Earth, has an equilibrium temperature near 197 K, spans roughly 1.13 Earth radii and weighs about 1.32 Earth masses.

Crammed into a system of five or more planets.

How to see it

Like any astronomical target, TRAPPIST-1 g 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 TRAPPIST-1 g is a rare exoplanet

TRAPPIST-1 g scores 41 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the rare tier. Another 5 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 4 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Earth-sized, Multi-planet system and Richly packed system — 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.