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TIC 245076932 b

RA 198.0635° · Dec -51.2144° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 3 badges
13 pts · Trash
Trash 15 pts → Common
  • Confirmed exoplanet +5
  • Gas giant +4
  • Found by TESS +4
Total score 13

2 more points to reach Common.

Badges

  • Confirmed exoplanet · +5
  • Gas giant · +4
  • Found by TESS · +4

Trivia

Hard to believe

  • It would float. It is less dense than water. Drop it in a big enough ocean and the whole world would bob on the surface.

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. Lighter than Neptune — a puffed-up ball of hydrogen and helium with no surface anywhere on it to stand on.

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 11.7 you'll want a small backyard telescope.
  • Southern sky. It rides the southern half of the sky — an easier target the further south 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
0.7466
diameter km
138694.4796
discovery facility
Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)
discovery method
Transit
discovery year
2026
dist ly
991.3838
eccentricity
0.428
eq temp k
845
host star teff
6130
inclination
89.77
insolation
85.6018
mag
11.727
mass earth
162.0925
name
TIC 245076932 b
orbital period days
21.6139
radius earth
10.8727
semi major au
0.157
sys num planets
1
sys num stars
1

About TIC 245076932 b

TIC 245076932 b is a trash exoplanet. It lies about 991.4 light-years from Earth, shines at apparent magnitude 11.73, has an equilibrium temperature near 845 K and spans roughly 10.87 Earth radii.

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 11.73, a small backyard telescope will bring it into view.

Like any astronomical target, TIC 245076932 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 TIC 245076932 b is a trash exoplanet

TIC 245076932 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 3 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Gas giant 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.