About LHS 1678 c
LHS 1678 c is an epic exoplanet. It lies about 64.8 light-years from Earth, has an equilibrium temperature near 511 K, spans roughly 0.94 Earth radii and weighs about 1.4 Earth masses.
Packed denser than solid iron.
Epic exoplanet 49 EP
LHS 1678 c
RA 68.1790° · Dec -39.7909° · exoplanet
Score breakdown
· 5 badgesEpic 68 pts → Anomaly
- Denser than iron +18
- Earth-sized +16
- Multi-planet system +6
- Confirmed exoplanet +5
- Found by TESS +4
Total score 49
19 more points to reach Anomaly.
Badges
- Confirmed exoplanet · +5
- Earth-sized · +16
- Denser than iron · +18
- Multi-planet system · +6
- Found by TESS · +4
Trivia
What makes it special
- Heavyweight. Packed denser than solid iron.
Could we get there?
- Verdict. Hopelessly far for any craft humanity can build today.
Getting there
- Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 1.1 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
- Fastest probe ever. ≈ 101.2 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
- At 10% light speed. ≈ 648 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
- Distance. 64.8 light-years from Earth.
Look-back time
- Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 1961.
Saying hello
- Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 130 years round-trip.
Standing on it
- A year here. A full year lasts just 3.7 Earth days.
By the numbers
- Size. Around 94% of Earth's width.
- Mass. About 1.4× the mass of Earth.
- Your weight. You'd weigh about 1.6× your Earth weight standing here.
- Density. Denser than solid iron.
- Temperature. A scorching 238°C on average.
How we found it
- Discovery. Found by Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) using the transit method.
Cosmic context
- Crowded system. One of at least 3 planets orbiting its star.
Properties
- density gcc
- 10.6
- discovery facility
- Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)
- discovery method
- Transit
- dist ly
- 64.8339
- eccentricity
- 0.039
- eq temp k
- 510.9
- insolation
- 13.5
- mass earth
- 1.4
- name
- LHS 1678 c
- orbital period days
- 3.6943
- radius earth
- 0.941
- sys num planets
- 3
How to see it
Like any astronomical target, LHS 1678 c 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 LHS 1678 c is an epic exoplanet
LHS 1678 c scores 49 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the epic tier. Another 19 points would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 5 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Earth-sized, Denser than iron, Multi-planet system and Found by TESS — 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.