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Epic exoplanet 52 EP

OGLE-TR-132 b

RA 162.6441° · Dec -61.9572° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 7 badges
52 pts · Epic
Epic 78 pts → Anomaly
  • Lava world +14
  • Tidally locked +10
  • Eccentric orbit +9
  • Distant (over 1,000 light-years) +6
  • Confirmed exoplanet +5
  • Gas giant +4
  • Blasted by starlight +4
Total score 52

26 more points to reach Anomaly.

Badges

  • Confirmed exoplanet · +5
  • Distant (over 1,000 light-years) · +6
  • Gas giant · +4
  • Lava world · +14
  • Eccentric orbit · +9
  • Tidally locked · +10
  • Blasted by starlight · +4

Trivia

What makes it special

  • Lava world. Its surface is almost certainly an ocean of molten rock, kept liquid by the star it hugs.

Hard to believe

  • It would float. It is less dense than water. Drop it in a big enough ocean and the whole world would bob on the surface.

What it actually is

  • Hugging its star. It orbits closer to its star than Mercury does to the Sun, completing a lap in less time than Mercury takes.
  • What it is made of. Lighter than Neptune — a puffed-up ball of hydrogen and helium with no surface anywhere on it to stand on.

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 16.5 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 March — that's when to go looking.

Properties

density gcc
0.85
diameter km
171570.89
discovery facility
OGLE
discovery method
Transit
discovery year
2004
dist ly
6564.2809
eccentricity
0.6
eq temp k
2013
host star teff
6210
inclination
83.4
insolation
2550.8364
mag
16.536
mass earth
375.02
name
OGLE-TR-132 b
orbital period days
1.6899
radius earth
13.45
semi major au
0.0303
spect
F5 V
sys num planets
1
sys num stars
1
tidally locked
yes
tidally locked inferred
yes

About OGLE-TR-132 b

OGLE-TR-132 b is an epic exoplanet. It lies about 6,564.3 light-years from Earth, shines at apparent magnitude 16.54, has spectral type F5 V and has an equilibrium temperature near 2,013 K.

Its surface is almost certainly an ocean of molten rock, kept liquid by the star it hugs.

How to see it

At apparent magnitude 16.54, it takes a larger telescope or a long-exposure image to capture.

Like any astronomical target, OGLE-TR-132 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 OGLE-TR-132 b is an epic exoplanet

OGLE-TR-132 b scores 52 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the epic tier. Another 26 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, Lava world, Eccentric orbit, Tidally locked and Blasted by starlight — 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.