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Rare exoplanet 42 EP

TOI-4562 b

RA 112.0101° · Dec -63.5178° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 7 badges
42 pts · Rare
Rare 50 pts → Epic
  • Eccentric orbit +9
  • Orbits a Sun-like star +8
  • Distant (over 1,000 light-years) +6
  • Multi-planet system +6
  • Confirmed exoplanet +5
  • Gas giant +4
  • Found by TESS +4
Total score 42

8 more points to reach Epic.

Badges

  • Confirmed exoplanet · +5
  • Distant (over 1,000 light-years) · +6
  • Gas giant · +4
  • Eccentric orbit · +9
  • Multi-planet system · +6
  • Found by TESS · +4
  • Orbits a Sun-like star · +8

Trivia

What it actually is

  • What it is made of. Too light to be solid rock and too heavy to be all gas: most likely a deep global ocean or a thick steamy envelope over a rocky core.
  • Crowded system. One of at least 2 planets orbiting its star.

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 12.1 it is far too faint for the eye: this one belongs to cameras and long exposures.
  • 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 January — that's when to go looking.

Could we get there?

  • Verdict. Impossible with our current technology — and the next millennium of it.

Getting there

  • Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 19.5 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).

Properties

density gcc
2.06
diameter km
159835.186
discovery facility
Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)
discovery method
Transit
discovery year
2023
dist ly
1107.6421
eccentricity
0.76
eq temp k
318
host star teff
6096
inclination
89.15
insolation
3.2011
mag
12.14
mass earth
732
name
TOI-4562 b
orbital period days
225.1064
radius earth
12.53
semi major au
0.768
spect
F7 V
sys num planets
2
sys num stars
1

About TOI-4562 b

TOI-4562 b is a rare exoplanet. It lies about 1,107.6 light-years from Earth, shines at apparent magnitude 12.14, has spectral type F7 V and has an equilibrium temperature near 318 K.

Too light to be solid rock and too heavy to be all gas: most likely a deep global ocean or a thick steamy envelope over a rocky core.

How to see it

At apparent magnitude 12.14, it takes a larger telescope or a long-exposure image to capture.

Like any astronomical target, TOI-4562 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 TOI-4562 b is a rare exoplanet

TOI-4562 b scores 42 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the rare tier. Another 8 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 7 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Distant (over 1,000 light-years), Gas giant, Eccentric orbit, Multi-planet system, Found by TESS and Orbits a Sun-like star — 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.