Common exoplanet 16 EP

HD 51608 b

RA 103.7137° · Dec -55.2600° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 3 badges

16 pts · Common

Common 24 pts → Uncommon

Multi-planet system +6
Confirmed exoplanet +5
Sub-Neptune +5

Total score 16

8 more points to reach Uncommon.

Badges

Confirmed exoplanet · +5
Sub-Neptune · +5
Multi-planet system · +6

Trivia

Could we get there?

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

Getting there

Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 2 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
Fastest probe ever. ≈ 178.5 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
At 10% light speed. ≈ 1143 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
Distance. 114 light-years from Earth.

Look-back time

Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 1912.

Saying hello

Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 229 years round-trip.

Standing on it

A year here. A full year lasts just 14.1 Earth days.

By the numbers

Size. About 3.6× the width of Earth.
Volume. About 47.4 Earths could fit inside it.
Mass. About 12.8× the mass of Earth.
Your weight. You'd weigh about 1.0× your Earth weight standing here.
Temperature. Around 487°C — hotter than a self-cleaning oven.

How we found it

Discovery. Found by La Silla Observatory using the radial velocity method.

Cosmic context

Crowded system. One of at least 2 planets orbiting its star.

Properties

density gcc: 1.48
discovery facility: La Silla Observatory
discovery method: Radial Velocity
dist ly: 114.335
eccentricity: 0.09
eq temp k: 759.92
insolation: 50.8256
mass earth: 12.77
name: HD 51608 b
orbital period days: 14.0726
radius earth: 3.62
sys num planets: 2

About HD 51608 b

HD 51608 b is a common exoplanet. It lies about 114.3 light-years from Earth, has an equilibrium temperature near 760 K, spans roughly 3.62 Earth radii and weighs about 12.77 Earth masses.

One of at least 2 planets orbiting its star.

How to see it

Like any astronomical target, HD 51608 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 51608 b is a common exoplanet

HD 51608 b scores 16 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the common tier. Another 8 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 3 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Sub-Neptune and Multi-planet system — 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.