About Gaia22dkvL b
Gaia22dkvL b is an uncommon exoplanet. It lies about 4,142.2 light-years from Earth, spans roughly 14.1 Earth radii, weighs about 187.84 Earth masses and belongs to a system of 1 known planets.
About 14.1× the width of Earth.
Uncommon exoplanet 31 EP
Gaia22dkvL b
RA 151.7690° · Dec -66.1809° · exoplanet
Score breakdown
· 4 badgesUncommon 33 pts → Rare
- Found by microlensing +12
- Distant (>1000 ly) +10
- Confirmed exoplanet +5
- Gas giant +4
Total score 31
2 more points to reach Rare.
Badges
- Confirmed exoplanet · +5
- Gas giant · +4
- Found by microlensing · +12
- Distant (>1000 ly) · +10
Trivia
Could we get there?
- Verdict. Impossible with our current technology — and the next millennium of it.
Getting there
- Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 72.8 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
- Fastest probe ever. ≈ 6.5 million years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
- At 10% light speed. ≈ 41.4 thousand years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
- Distance. 4142 light-years from Earth.
Look-back time
- Look-back time. Its light left before the last ice age ended.
Saying hello
- Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 8284 years round-trip.
By the numbers
- Size. About 14.1× the width of Earth.
- Volume. About 2803 Earths could fit inside it.
- Mass. Roughly 188× Earth's mass — about 0.6 Jupiters.
- Your weight. You'd weigh about 0.9× your Earth weight standing here.
- Density. Less dense than water — drop it in a big enough ocean and it would float.
How we found it
- Discovery. Found by European Space Agency (ESA) Gaia Satellite using the microlensing method.
Properties
- density gcc
- 0.368
- discovery facility
- European Space Agency (ESA) Gaia Satellite
- discovery method
- Microlensing
- dist ly
- 4142.1812
- mass earth
- 187.8366
- name
- Gaia22dkvL b
- radius earth
- 14.1
- sys num planets
- 1
How to see it
Like any astronomical target, Gaia22dkvL 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 Gaia22dkvL b is an uncommon exoplanet
Gaia22dkvL b scores 31 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the uncommon tier. Another 2 points would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 4 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Gas giant, Found by microlensing and Distant (>1000 ly) — 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.