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Rare exoplanet 49 EP

WASP-14 b

RA 218.2766° · Dec 21.8947° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 6 badges
49 pts · Rare
Rare 50 pts → Epic
  • Lava world +14
  • Two suns in its sky +12
  • Tidally locked +10
  • Confirmed exoplanet +5
  • Gas giant +4
  • Blasted by starlight +4
Total score 49

1 more point to reach Epic.

Badges

  • Confirmed exoplanet · +5
  • Gas giant · +4
  • Lava world · +14
  • Tidally locked · +10
  • Blasted by starlight · +4
  • Two suns in its sky · +12

Trivia

What makes it special

  • Lava world. Its surface is almost certainly an ocean of molten rock, kept liquid by the star it hugs.

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.
  • What it is made of. Too light to be solid rock and too heavy to be all gas: most likely a deep global ocean or a thick steamy envelope over a rocky core.

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 9.7 you'll want a small backyard telescope.
  • Northern sky. It rides the northern half of the sky — an easier target the further north you are.
  • Best time of year. It stands highest in the middle of the night around April — that's when to go looking.

Could we get there?

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

Properties

density gcc
2.25
diameter km
197318.2592
discovery facility
SuperWASP
discovery method
Transit
discovery year
2008
dist ly
528.3629
eccentricity
0.09
eq temp k
1872
host star teff
6475
inclination
84.32
insolation
1356.33
mag
9.745
mass earth
2809.6172
multi star system
yes
name
WASP-14 b
orbital period days
2.2437
radius earth
15.4684
semi major au
0.037
sys num planets
1
sys num stars
3
tidally locked
yes
tidally locked inferred
yes

About WASP-14 b

WASP-14 b is a rare exoplanet. It lies about 528.4 light-years from Earth, shines at apparent magnitude 9.74, has an equilibrium temperature near 1,872 K and spans roughly 15.47 Earth radii.

Its surface is almost certainly an ocean of molten rock, kept liquid by the star it hugs.

How to see it

At apparent magnitude 9.74, a small backyard telescope will bring it into view.

Like any astronomical target, WASP-14 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 WASP-14 b is a rare exoplanet

WASP-14 b scores 49 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, Lava world, Tidally locked, Blasted by starlight and Two suns in its sky — 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.