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Uncommon exoplanet 29 EP

HD 196050 b

RA 309.4638° · Dec -60.6348° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 4 badges
29 pts · Uncommon
Uncommon 34 pts → Rare
  • Two suns in its sky +12
  • Orbits a Sun-like star +8
  • Confirmed exoplanet +5
  • Gas giant +4
Total score 29

5 more points to reach Rare.

Badges

  • Confirmed exoplanet · +5
  • Gas giant · +4
  • Orbits a Sun-like star · +8
  • Two suns in its sky · +12

Trivia

What it actually is

  • What it is made of. Its density says rock, though lighter than Earth's mix: probably less iron, or a thick shell of water and ice over the top.

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 7.5 it is just past naked-eye reach — ordinary binoculars will pull it in.
  • Southern sky only. So far south it never rises for most of the northern hemisphere. To see it you'd have to travel to Chile, South Africa or Australia.
  • 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. ≈ 2.9 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
  • Fastest probe ever. ≈ 258.1 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.

Properties

density gcc
3.82
diameter km
164554.98
discovery facility
Anglo-Australian Telescope
discovery method
Radial Velocity
discovery year
2002
dist ly
165.2769
eccentricity
0.2
eq temp k
207.52
host star teff
5879
inclination
42
insolation
0.2591
mag
7.5
mass earth
1493.7935
multi star system
yes
name
HD 196050 b
orbital period days
1392
radius earth
12.9
semi major au
2.65
spect
G3 V
sys num planets
1
sys num stars
3

About HD 196050 b

HD 196050 b is an uncommon exoplanet. It lies about 165.3 light-years from Earth, shines at apparent magnitude 7.5, has spectral type G3 V and has an equilibrium temperature near 208 K.

Its density says rock, though lighter than Earth's mix: probably less iron, or a thick shell of water and ice over the top.

How to see it

At apparent magnitude 7.5, it is an easy target for binoculars.

Like any astronomical target, HD 196050 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 196050 b is an uncommon exoplanet

HD 196050 b scores 29 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the uncommon tier. Another 5 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 4 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Gas giant, Orbits a Sun-like star and Two suns in its sky — 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.