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Common exoplanet 15 EP

HD 60292 b

RA 114.6202° · Dec 66.2351° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 3 badges
15 pts · Common
Common 22 pts → Uncommon
  • Distant (over 1,000 light-years) +6
  • Confirmed exoplanet +5
  • Gas giant +4
Total score 15

7 more points to reach Uncommon.

Badges

  • Confirmed exoplanet · +5
  • Distant (over 1,000 light-years) · +6
  • Gas giant · +4

Trivia

What it actually is

  • What it is made of. Denser than Earth — a solid world of rock and iron, with no meaningful atmosphere to speak of by mass.

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 6.9 it is just past naked-eye reach — ordinary binoculars will pull it in.
  • Never sets. So far north that from Britain, Canada or northern Europe it never dips below the horizon — it is up every clear night of the year.
  • 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. Impossible with our current technology — and the next millennium of it.

Getting there

  • Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 18.1 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
  • Fastest probe ever. ≈ 1.6 million years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.

Properties

density gcc
5.54
diameter km
162003.74
discovery facility
Bohyunsan Optical Astronomical Observatory
discovery method
Radial Velocity
discovery year
2020
dist ly
1028.0796
eccentricity
0.27
eq temp k
889.53
host star teff
4348
insolation
110.1333
mag
6.9466
mass earth
2065.895
name
HD 60292 b
orbital period days
495.4
radius earth
12.7
semi major au
1.5
spect
K0 III
sys num planets
1
sys num stars
1

Nearby objects

About HD 60292 b

HD 60292 b is a common exoplanet. It lies about 1,028.1 light-years from Earth, shines at apparent magnitude 6.95, has spectral type K0 III and has an equilibrium temperature near 890 K.

Denser than Earth — a solid world of rock and iron, with no meaningful atmosphere to speak of by mass.

How to see it

At apparent magnitude 6.95, it is an easy target for binoculars.

Like any astronomical target, HD 60292 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 60292 b is a common exoplanet

HD 60292 b scores 15 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the common tier. Another 7 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 3 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Distant (over 1,000 light-years) and Gas giant — 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.