RA 295.4656° · Dec 50.5168° · exoplanet
34 more points to reach Mythic.
16 Cyg B b is an anomaly exoplanet. It lies about 68.9 light-years from Earth, shines at apparent magnitude 6.21, has spectral type G3 V and has an equilibrium temperature near 229 K.
Sits where it's neither too hot nor too cold — liquid water could exist on a surface here.
At apparent magnitude 6.21, it is an easy target for binoculars.
Like any astronomical target, 16 Cyg B 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.
16 Cyg B b scores 86 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the anomaly tier. Another 34 points would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 7 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, In the habitable zone, Gas giant, Eccentric orbit, Orbits a Sun-like star, Two suns in its sky and Found before the year 2000 — 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.