RA 242.1821° · Dec -23.6855° · exoplanet
17 more points to reach Mythic.
HIP 79098 AB b is an anomaly exoplanet. It lies about 475.5 light-years from Earth, shines at apparent magnitude 5.86, has spectral type B9 V and has an equilibrium temperature near 2,450 K.
So hot that iron vaporises on the dayside, blows around to the night side and rains back down as molten metal.
At apparent magnitude 5.86, it can be glimpsed with the unaided eye under dark skies.
Like any astronomical target, HIP 79098 AB 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.
HIP 79098 AB b scores 103 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the anomaly tier. Another 17 points would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 8 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Gas giant, Ultra-hot Jupiter, Circumbinary (orbits both stars), Directly imaged, Its star is visible to the naked eye, Orbits a hot blue-white star and Orbits beyond Neptune's distance — 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.