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Common exoplanet 21 EP

HD 176986 b

RA 285.7739° · Dec -11.0449° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 3 badges
21 pts · Common
Common 22 pts → Uncommon
  • Tidally locked +10
  • Multi-planet system +6
  • Confirmed exoplanet +5
Total score 21

1 more point to reach Uncommon.

Badges

  • Confirmed exoplanet · +5
  • Tidally locked · +10
  • Multi-planet system · +6

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.
  • 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 8.4 it is just past naked-eye reach — ordinary binoculars will pull it in.
  • 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 July — 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. ≈ 1.6 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).

Properties

discovery facility
Multiple Observatories
discovery method
Radial Velocity
discovery year
2017
dist ly
90.6202
eccentricity
0.066
eq temp k
767
host star teff
4931
inclination
0.2581
insolation
81.7
mag
8.42
mass earth
1487.7548
name
HD 176986 b
orbital period days
6.4916
semi major au
0.063
spect
K2.5 V
sys num planets
3
sys num stars
1
tidally locked
yes
tidally locked inferred
yes

About HD 176986 b

HD 176986 b is a common exoplanet. It lies about 90.6 light-years from Earth, shines at apparent magnitude 8.42, has spectral type K2.5 V and has an equilibrium temperature near 767 K.

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 8.42, it is an easy target for binoculars.

Like any astronomical target, HD 176986 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 176986 b is a common exoplanet

HD 176986 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 3 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Tidally locked and Multi-planet 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.