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Rare exoplanet 36 EP

HD 203387 b

RA 320.5618° · Dec -16.8345° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 5 badges
36 pts · Rare
Rare 50 pts → Epic
  • Its star is visible to the naked eye +12
  • Eccentric orbit +9
  • Multi-planet system +6
  • Confirmed exoplanet +5
  • Gas giant +4
Total score 36

14 more points to reach Epic.

Badges

  • Confirmed exoplanet · +5
  • Gas giant · +4
  • Eccentric orbit · +9
  • Multi-planet system · +6
  • Its star is visible to the naked eye · +12

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 4.3 you can see it with your own eyes from a dark site.
  • Southern sky. It rides the southern half of the sky — an easier target the further south you are.
  • Best time of year. It stands highest in the middle of the night around August — that's when to go looking.

Could we get there?

  • Verdict. Hopelessly far for any craft humanity can build today.

Getting there

  • Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 3.5 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).

Properties

density gcc
2.7
diameter km
167106.22
discovery facility
Multiple Observatories
discovery method
Radial Velocity
discovery year
2022
dist ly
201.3938
eccentricity
0.732
eq temp k
610
host star teff
5174.32
insolation
23.0974
mag
4.28
mass earth
1106.0429
name
HD 203387 b
orbital period days
512.5352
radius earth
13.1
semi major au
1.771
sys num planets
2
sys num stars
1

About HD 203387 b

HD 203387 b is a rare exoplanet. It lies about 201.4 light-years from Earth, shines at apparent magnitude 4.28, has an equilibrium temperature near 610 K and spans roughly 13.1 Earth radii.

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 4.28, it can be glimpsed with the unaided eye under dark skies.

Like any astronomical target, HD 203387 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 HD 203387 b is a rare exoplanet

HD 203387 b scores 36 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the rare tier. Another 14 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 5 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Gas giant, Eccentric orbit, Multi-planet system and Its star is visible to the naked eye — 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.