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Epic exoplanet 63 EP

GSC 06214-00210 b

RA 245.4777° · Dec -20.7193° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 5 badges
63 pts · Epic
Epic 78 pts → Anomaly
  • Ultra-hot Jupiter +26
  • Directly imaged +16
  • Orbits beyond Neptune's distance +12
  • Confirmed exoplanet +5
  • Gas giant +4
Total score 63

15 more points to reach Anomaly.

Badges

  • Confirmed exoplanet · +5
  • Gas giant · +4
  • Ultra-hot Jupiter · +26
  • Directly imaged · +16
  • Orbits beyond Neptune's distance · +12

Trivia

What makes it special

  • Ultra-hot Jupiter. So hot that iron vaporises on the dayside, blows around to the night side and rains back down as molten metal.

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 12.4 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.
  • Best time of year. It stands highest in the middle of the night around May — 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. ≈ 6.2 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).

Properties

density gcc
3.35
diameter km
257371.6424
discovery facility
Palomar Observatory
discovery method
Imaging
discovery year
2010
dist ly
353.8793
eq temp k
2300
host star teff
4200
insolation
0
mag
12.416
mass earth
5000
name
GSC 06214-00210 b
radius earth
20.1762
semi major au
320
spect
K7
sys num planets
1
sys num stars
1

About GSC 06214-00210 b

GSC 06214-00210 b is an epic exoplanet. It lies about 353.9 light-years from Earth, shines at apparent magnitude 12.42, has spectral type K7 and has an equilibrium temperature near 2,300 K.

So hot that iron vaporises on the dayside, blows around to the night side and rains back down as molten metal.

How to see it

At apparent magnitude 12.42, it takes a larger telescope or a long-exposure image to capture.

Like any astronomical target, GSC 06214-00210 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 GSC 06214-00210 b is an epic exoplanet

GSC 06214-00210 b scores 63 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the epic tier. Another 15 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 5 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Gas giant, Ultra-hot Jupiter, Directly imaged and Orbits beyond Neptune's distance — 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.