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HD 179079 b

RA 287.7904° · Dec -2.6388° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 2 badges
13 pts · Trash
Trash 15 pts → Common
  • Orbits a Sun-like star +8
  • Confirmed exoplanet +5
Total score 13

2 more points to reach Common.

Badges

  • Confirmed exoplanet · +5
  • Orbits a Sun-like star · +8

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.

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 8 it is just past naked-eye reach — ordinary binoculars will pull it in.
  • Seen from everywhere. It sits almost on the celestial equator, so it can be seen from essentially anywhere on Earth.
  • 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. ≈ 4 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
  • Fastest probe ever. ≈ 355 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.

Properties

discovery facility
W. M. Keck Observatory
discovery method
Radial Velocity
discovery year
2008
dist ly
227.3686
eccentricity
0.049
eq temp k
997.61
host star teff
5646
inclination
0.3766
insolation
162.7656
mag
7.95
mass earth
4195.335
name
HD 179079 b
orbital period days
14.479
semi major au
0.1214
spect
G5 IV
sys num planets
1
sys num stars
1

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About HD 179079 b

HD 179079 b is a trash exoplanet. It lies about 227.4 light-years from Earth, shines at apparent magnitude 7.95, has spectral type G5 IV and has an equilibrium temperature near 998 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 7.95, it is an easy target for binoculars.

Like any astronomical target, HD 179079 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 179079 b is a trash exoplanet

HD 179079 b scores 13 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the trash tier. Another 2 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 2 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet and Orbits a Sun-like star — 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.