Rare exoplanet 45 EP

HD 2685 b

RA 7.3289° · Dec -76.3040° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 6 badges

45 pts · Rare

Rare 46 pts → Epic

Lava world +14
Hot Jupiter +10
Blasted by starlight +8
Confirmed exoplanet +5
Gas giant +4
Found by TESS +4

Total score 45

1 more point to reach Epic.

Badges

Confirmed exoplanet · +5
Gas giant · +4
Hot Jupiter · +10
Lava world · +14
Blasted by starlight · +8
Found by TESS · +4

Trivia

What makes it special

Lava world. Its surface is likely an ocean of molten rock.

Could we get there?

Verdict. Hopelessly far for any craft humanity can build today.

Getting there

Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 11.3 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
Fastest probe ever. ≈ 1 million years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
At 10% light speed. ≈ 6420 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
Distance. 642 light-years from Earth.

Look-back time

Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 1384.

Saying hello

Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 1284 years round-trip.

Standing on it

A year here. A full year lasts just 4.1 Earth days.

By the numbers

Size. About 16.1× the width of Earth.
Volume. About 4205 Earths could fit inside it.
Mass. Roughly 372× Earth's mass — about 1.2 Jupiters.
Your weight. You'd weigh about 1.4× your Earth weight standing here.
Density. Less dense than water — drop it in a big enough ocean and it would float.
Temperature. Around 2061 K — hot enough to vaporise iron.

How we found it

Discovery. Found by Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) using the transit method.

Properties

density gcc: 0.486
discovery facility: Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)
discovery method: Transit
dist ly: 642.0446
eccentricity: 0.091
eq temp k: 2061
insolation: 1436.49
mass earth: 371.8611
name: HD 2685 b
orbital period days: 4.1269
radius earth: 16.141
sys num planets: 1

About HD 2685 b

HD 2685 b is a rare exoplanet. It lies about 642 light-years from Earth, has an equilibrium temperature near 2,061 K, spans roughly 16.14 Earth radii and weighs about 371.86 Earth masses.

Its surface is likely an ocean of molten rock.

How to see it

Like any astronomical target, HD 2685 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 2685 b is a rare exoplanet

HD 2685 b scores 45 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the rare tier. Another 1 point would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 6 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Gas giant, Hot Jupiter, Lava world, Blasted by starlight 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.