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Common exoplanet 21 EP

TOI-1718 b

RA 112.0180° · Dec 30.3217° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 4 badges
21 pts · Common
Common 22 pts → Uncommon
  • Orbits a Sun-like star +8
  • Confirmed exoplanet +5
  • Neptune-like +4
  • Found by TESS +4
Total score 21

1 more point to reach Uncommon.

Badges

  • Confirmed exoplanet · +5
  • Neptune-like · +4
  • Found by TESS · +4
  • Orbits a Sun-like star · +8

Trivia

What it actually is

  • Hugging its star. It orbits closer to its star than Mercury does to the Sun, completing a lap in less time than Mercury takes.
  • 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.

Sense of scale

  • In perspective. Far away by human standards, yet still a local address inside the Milky Way's spiral arms.

Find it in the sky

  • How to spot it. At magnitude 9 it is just past naked-eye reach — ordinary binoculars will pull it in.
  • Northern sky. It rides the northern half of the sky — an easier target the further north you are.
  • Best time of year. It stands highest in the middle of the night around January — 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. ≈ 3 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).

Properties

density gcc
1.25
diameter km
52405.6579
discovery facility
Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)
discovery method
Transit
discovery year
2026
dist ly
170.5939
eq temp k
948
host star teff
5304.91
inclination
87.883
insolation
134.155
mag
8.96
mass earth
15.8
name
TOI-1718 b
orbital period days
5.587
radius earth
4.1082
sys num planets
1
sys num stars
1

About TOI-1718 b

TOI-1718 b is a common exoplanet. It lies about 170.6 light-years from Earth, shines at apparent magnitude 8.96, has an equilibrium temperature near 948 K and spans roughly 4.11 Earth radii.

It orbits closer to its star than Mercury does to the Sun, completing a lap in less time than Mercury takes.

How to see it

At apparent magnitude 8.96, it is an easy target for binoculars.

Like any astronomical target, TOI-1718 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 TOI-1718 b is a common exoplanet

TOI-1718 b scores 21 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the common tier. Another 1 point would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 4 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Neptune-like, Found by TESS and Orbits a Sun-like 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.