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Common exoplanet 15 EP

HD 137496 c

RA 231.7421° · Dec -16.5090° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 3 badges
15 pts · Common
Common 24 pts → Uncommon
  • Multi-planet system +6
  • Confirmed exoplanet +5
  • Gas giant +4
Total score 15

9 more points to reach Uncommon.

Badges

  • Confirmed exoplanet · +5
  • Gas giant · +4
  • Multi-planet system · +6

Trivia

Could we get there?

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

Getting there

  • Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 8.9 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
  • Fastest probe ever. ≈ 791 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
  • At 10% light speed. ≈ 5066 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
  • Distance. 507 light-years from Earth.

Look-back time

  • Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 1519.

Saying hello

  • Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 1013 years round-trip.

Standing on it

  • A year here. A full year lasts just 480 Earth days.

By the numbers

  • Size. About 12.6× the width of Earth.
  • Volume. About 2000 Earths could fit inside it.
  • Mass. Roughly 2435× Earth's mass — about 7.7 Jupiters.
  • Your weight. You'd weigh about 15.3× your Earth weight standing here.
  • Temperature. A scorching 97°C on average.

How we found it

  • Discovery. Found by Multiple Observatories using the radial velocity method.

Cosmic context

  • Crowded system. One of at least 2 planets orbiting its star.

Properties

density gcc
6.69
discovery facility
Multiple Observatories
discovery method
Radial Velocity
dist ly
506.5757
eccentricity
0.477
eq temp k
370
insolation
1.5713
mass earth
2434.5656
name
HD 137496 c
orbital period days
479.9
radius earth
12.6
sys num planets
2

About HD 137496 c

HD 137496 c is a common exoplanet. It lies about 506.6 light-years from Earth, has an equilibrium temperature near 370 K, spans roughly 12.6 Earth radii and weighs about 2,434.57 Earth masses.

One of at least 2 planets orbiting its star.

How to see it

Like any astronomical target, HD 137496 c 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 137496 c is a common exoplanet

HD 137496 c scores 15 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the common tier. Another 9 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 3 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Gas giant and Multi-planet system — 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.

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Sky imagery and survey data courtesy of Aladin Lite & CDS, Strasbourg. Object data from the NASA Exoplanet Archive, JPL Small-Body Database, and the ATNF Pulsar Catalogue.