Trash exoplanet 5 EP

HD 179079 b

RA 287.7904° · Dec -2.6388° · exoplanet

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5 pts · Trash

Trash 15 pts → Common

Confirmed exoplanet +5

Total score 5

10 more points to reach Common.

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Confirmed exoplanet · +5

Trivia

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.
At 10% light speed. ≈ 2274 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
Distance. 227 light-years from Earth.

Look-back time

Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 1799.

Saying hello

Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 455 years round-trip.

Standing on it

A year here. A full year lasts just 14.5 Earth days.

By the numbers

Mass. Roughly 4195× Earth's mass — about 13.2 Jupiters.
Temperature. Around 724°C — hotter than a self-cleaning oven.

How we found it

Discovery. Found by W. M. Keck Observatory using the radial velocity method.

Properties

discovery facility: W. M. Keck Observatory
discovery method: Radial Velocity
dist ly: 227.3686
eccentricity: 0.049
eq temp k: 997.61
insolation: 162.7656
mass earth: 4195.335
name: HD 179079 b
orbital period days: 14.479
sys num planets: 1

About HD 179079 b

HD 179079 b is a trash exoplanet. It lies about 227.4 light-years from Earth, has an equilibrium temperature near 998 K, weighs about 4,195.33 Earth masses and completes an orbit every 14.48 days.

Roughly 4195× Earth's mass — about 13.2 Jupiters.

How to see it

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 5 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the trash tier. Another 10 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 1 science badge — Confirmed exoplanet — 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.