About TAP 26 b
TAP 26 b is a trash exoplanet. It lies about 396 light-years from Earth, has an equilibrium temperature near 775 K, spans roughly 13.5 Earth radii and weighs about 527.6 Earth masses.
About 13.5× the width of Earth.
Trash exoplanet 9 EP
TAP 26 b
RA 64.7154° · Dec 17.3879° · exoplanet
Score breakdown
· 2 badgesTrash 15 pts → Common
- Confirmed exoplanet +5
- Gas giant +4
Total score 9
6 more points to reach Common.
Badges
- Confirmed exoplanet · +5
- Gas giant · +4
Trivia
Could we get there?
- Verdict. Hopelessly far for any craft humanity can build today.
Getting there
- Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 7 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
- Fastest probe ever. ≈ 618.3 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
- At 10% light speed. ≈ 3960 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
- Distance. 396 light-years from Earth.
Look-back time
- Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 1630.
Saying hello
- Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 792 years round-trip.
Standing on it
- A year here. A full year lasts just 10.8 Earth days.
By the numbers
- Size. About 13.5× the width of Earth.
- Volume. About 2460 Earths could fit inside it.
- Mass. Roughly 528× Earth's mass — about 1.7 Jupiters.
- Your weight. You'd weigh about 2.9× your Earth weight standing here.
- Temperature. Around 501°C — hotter than a self-cleaning oven.
How we found it
- Discovery. Found by Multiple Facilities using the radial velocity method.
Properties
- density gcc
- 1.18
- discovery facility
- Multiple Facilities
- discovery method
- Radial Velocity
- dist ly
- 395.9599
- eq temp k
- 774.52
- insolation
- 60.0135
- mass earth
- 527.5978
- name
- TAP 26 b
- orbital period days
- 10.79
- radius earth
- 13.5
- sys num planets
- 1
How to see it
Like any astronomical target, TAP 26 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 TAP 26 b is a trash exoplanet
TAP 26 b scores 9 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the trash tier. Another 6 points would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 2 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet and Gas giant — 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.