About HD 86226 c
HD 86226 c is a rare exoplanet. It lies about 149 light-years from Earth, has an equilibrium temperature near 1,311 K, spans roughly 2.16 Earth radii and weighs about 7.25 Earth masses.
Its surface is likely an ocean of molten rock.
Rare exoplanet 34 EP
HD 86226 c
RA 149.1235° · Dec -24.0992° · exoplanet
Score breakdown
· 5 badgesRare 46 pts → Epic
- Lava world +14
- Multi-planet system +6
- Confirmed exoplanet +5
- Sub-Neptune +5
- Found by TESS +4
Total score 34
12 more points to reach Epic.
Badges
- Confirmed exoplanet · +5
- Sub-Neptune · +5
- Lava world · +14
- Multi-planet system · +6
- 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. ≈ 2.6 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
- Fastest probe ever. ≈ 232.6 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
- At 10% light speed. ≈ 1490 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
- Distance. 149 light-years from Earth.
Look-back time
- Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 1877.
Saying hello
- Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 298 years round-trip.
Standing on it
- A year here. A full year lasts just 4 Earth days.
By the numbers
- Size. About 2.2× the width of Earth.
- Volume. About 10.1 Earths could fit inside it.
- Mass. About 7.2× the mass of Earth.
- Your weight. You'd weigh about 1.6× your Earth weight standing here.
- Temperature. Around 1038°C — hotter than a self-cleaning oven.
How we found it
- Discovery. Found by Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) using the transit method.
Cosmic context
- Crowded system. One of at least 2 planets orbiting its star.
Properties
- density gcc
- 3.97
- discovery facility
- Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)
- discovery method
- Transit
- dist ly
- 148.9978
- eccentricity
- 0.075
- eq temp k
- 1311
- insolation
- 647.901
- mass earth
- 7.25
- name
- HD 86226 c
- orbital period days
- 3.9844
- radius earth
- 2.16
- sys num planets
- 2
How to see it
Like any astronomical target, HD 86226 c 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 86226 c is a rare exoplanet
HD 86226 c scores 34 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the rare tier. Another 12 points would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 5 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Sub-Neptune, Lava world, Multi-planet system 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.