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Epic exoplanet 53 EP

LP 791-18 b

RA 165.6905° · Dec -16.4064° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 6 badges
53 pts · Epic
Epic 78 pts → Anomaly
  • Earth-sized +16
  • Ultra-short period +14
  • Orbits a red dwarf +8
  • Multi-planet system +6
  • Confirmed exoplanet +5
  • Found by TESS +4
Total score 53

25 more points to reach Anomaly.

Badges

  • Confirmed exoplanet · +5
  • Earth-sized · +16
  • Ultra-short period · +14
  • Multi-planet system · +6
  • Found by TESS · +4
  • Orbits a red dwarf · +8

Trivia

What makes it special

  • Earth-sized. Genuinely comparable to Earth in size. Worlds in this narrow band are the ones every next-generation telescope is being pointed at.

Hard to believe

  • A year in a day. Its entire year is over in 22.8 hours. Birthdays here would come round faster than meals.

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. Denser than Earth — a solid world of rock and iron, with no meaningful atmosphere to speak of by mass.
  • Crowded system. One of at least 3 planets orbiting its star.

Sense of scale

  • In perspective. Inside our stellar backyard: every radio broadcast humanity has ever made has already swept past it.

Find it in the sky

  • How to spot it. At magnitude 16.9 it is far too faint for the eye: this one belongs to cameras and long exposures.
  • Southern sky. It rides the southern half of the sky — an easier target the further south you are.

Properties

density gcc
5.99
diameter km
15460.5144
discovery facility
Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)
discovery method
Transit
discovery year
2019
dist ly
86.4075
eccentricity
0
eq temp k
564.3
host star teff
2960
inclination
88.37
insolation
24.14
mag
16.91
mass earth
1.94
name
LP 791-18 b
orbital period days
0.948
radius earth
1.212
semi major au
0.0098
spect
M(6.1 +/- 0.7) V
sys num planets
3
sys num stars
1
tidally locked
yes
tidally locked inferred
yes

About LP 791-18 b

LP 791-18 b is an epic exoplanet. It lies about 86.4 light-years from Earth, shines at apparent magnitude 16.91, has spectral type M(6.1 +/- 0.7) V and has an equilibrium temperature near 564 K.

Genuinely comparable to Earth in size. Worlds in this narrow band are the ones every next-generation telescope is being pointed at.

How to see it

At apparent magnitude 16.91, it takes a larger telescope or a long-exposure image to capture.

Like any astronomical target, LP 791-18 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 LP 791-18 b is an epic exoplanet

LP 791-18 b scores 53 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the epic tier. Another 25 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 6 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Earth-sized, Ultra-short period, Multi-planet system, Found by TESS and Orbits a red dwarf — 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.