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Rare exoplanet 44 EP

HD 6061 b

RA 15.5981° · Dec 37.1854° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 6 badges
44 pts · Rare
Rare 50 pts → Epic
  • Two suns in its sky +12
  • Tidally locked +10
  • Orbits a Sun-like star +8
  • Confirmed exoplanet +5
  • Sub-Neptune +5
  • Found by TESS +4
Total score 44

6 more points to reach Epic.

Badges

  • Confirmed exoplanet · +5
  • Sub-Neptune · +5
  • Tidally locked · +10
  • Found by TESS · +4
  • Orbits a Sun-like star · +8
  • Two suns in its sky · +12

Trivia

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. Its density says rock, though lighter than Earth's mix: probably less iron, or a thick shell of water and ice over the top.

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 8.8 it is just past naked-eye reach — ordinary binoculars will pull it in.
  • 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. Hopelessly far for any craft humanity can build today.

Getting there

  • Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 3.9 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).

Properties

density gcc
3.82
diameter km
30967.4049
discovery facility
Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)
discovery method
Transit
discovery year
2023
dist ly
220.5477
eccentricity
0
eq temp k
1075.31
host star teff
5934
insolation
339.1
mag
8.844
mass earth
10
multi star system
yes
name
HD 6061 b
orbital period days
5.2549
radius earth
2.4276
semi major au
0.06
sys num planets
1
sys num stars
2
tidally locked
yes
tidally locked inferred
yes

About HD 6061 b

HD 6061 b is a rare exoplanet. It lies about 220.5 light-years from Earth, shines at apparent magnitude 8.84, has an equilibrium temperature near 1,075 K and spans roughly 2.43 Earth radii.

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 8.84, it is an easy target for binoculars.

Like any astronomical target, HD 6061 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 6061 b is a rare exoplanet

HD 6061 b scores 44 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the rare tier. Another 6 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 6 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Sub-Neptune, Tidally locked, Found by TESS, 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.