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Epic exoplanet 55 EP

HAT-P-29 b

RA 33.1311° · Dec 51.7788° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 7 badges
55 pts · Epic
Epic 78 pts → Anomaly
  • Two suns in its sky +12
  • Hot Jupiter +10
  • Tidally locked +10
  • Orbits a Sun-like star +8
  • Distant (over 1,000 light-years) +6
  • Confirmed exoplanet +5
  • Gas giant +4
Total score 55

23 more points to reach Anomaly.

Badges

  • Confirmed exoplanet · +5
  • Distant (over 1,000 light-years) · +6
  • Gas giant · +4
  • Hot Jupiter · +10
  • Tidally locked · +10
  • Orbits a Sun-like star · +8
  • Two suns in its sky · +12

Trivia

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 11.8 you'll want a small backyard telescope.
  • Northern sky. It rides the northern half of the sky — an easier target the further north you are.
  • Best time of year. It stands highest in the middle of the night around October — that's when to go looking.

Could we get there?

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

Properties

density gcc
0.7108
diameter km
167291.5676
discovery facility
HATNet
discovery method
Transit
discovery year
2011
dist ly
1022.7469
eccentricity
0.09
eq temp k
1281
host star teff
6087
inclination
87.1
insolation
433
mag
11.825
mass earth
279.6904
multi star system
yes
name
HAT-P-29 b
orbital period days
5.7232
radius earth
13.1145
semi major au
0.0667
spect
F8
sys num planets
1
sys num stars
2
tidally locked
yes
tidally locked inferred
yes

About HAT-P-29 b

HAT-P-29 b is an epic exoplanet. It lies about 1,022.7 light-years from Earth, shines at apparent magnitude 11.82, has spectral type F8 and has an equilibrium temperature near 1,281 K.

It orbits closer to its star than Mercury does to the Sun, completing a lap in less time than Mercury takes.

How to see it

At apparent magnitude 11.82, a small backyard telescope will bring it into view.

Like any astronomical target, HAT-P-29 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 HAT-P-29 b is an epic exoplanet

HAT-P-29 b scores 55 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the epic tier. Another 23 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, Hot Jupiter, Tidally locked, Orbits a Sun-like star and Two suns in its sky — 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.