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Epic exoplanet 67 EP

bet Pic d

RA 86.8212° · Dec -51.0661° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 7 badges
67 pts · Epic
Epic 78 pts → Anomaly
  • Directly imaged +16
  • Orbits a hot blue-white star +14
  • Its star is visible to the naked eye +12
  • Long-period world +10
  • Multi-planet system +6
  • Confirmed exoplanet +5
  • Gas giant +4
Total score 67

11 more points to reach Anomaly.

Badges

  • Confirmed exoplanet · +5
  • Gas giant · +4
  • Long-period world · +10
  • Multi-planet system · +6
  • Directly imaged · +16
  • Its star is visible to the naked eye · +12
  • Orbits a hot blue-white star · +14

Trivia

What it actually is

  • What it is made of. Lighter than Neptune — a puffed-up ball of hydrogen and helium with no surface anywhere on it to stand on.
  • Crowded system. One of at least 3 planets orbiting its star.

Sense of scale

  • In perspective. Inside our stellar backyard: every radio broadcast humanity has ever made has already swept past it.

Find it in the sky

  • How to spot it. At magnitude 3.9 you can see it with your own eyes from a dark site.
  • Southern sky. It rides the southern half of the sky — an easier target the further south you are.
  • Best time of year. It stands highest in the middle of the night around December — that's when to go looking.

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).

Properties

density gcc
1.49
diameter km
180159.8395
discovery facility
Paranal Observatory
discovery method
Imaging
discovery year
2026
dist ly
64.3969
eccentricity
0.44
eq temp k
600
host star teff
8038.68
inclination
89
insolation
0.0133
mag
3.85
mass earth
762.7882
name
bet Pic d
orbital period days
33200
radius earth
14.1233
semi major au
26
spect
A6 V
sys num planets
3
sys num stars
1

About bet Pic d

bet Pic d is an epic exoplanet. It lies about 64.4 light-years from Earth, shines at apparent magnitude 3.85, has spectral type A6 V and has an equilibrium temperature near 600 K.

Lighter than Neptune — a puffed-up ball of hydrogen and helium with no surface anywhere on it to stand on.

How to see it

At apparent magnitude 3.85, it can be glimpsed with the unaided eye under dark skies.

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

bet Pic d scores 67 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the epic tier. Another 11 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 7 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Gas giant, Long-period world, Multi-planet system, Directly imaged, Its star is visible to the naked eye and Orbits a hot blue-white star — 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.