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Epic exoplanet 51 EP

2MASS J01033563-5515561 AB b

RA 15.8992° · Dec -55.2658° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 5 badges
51 pts · Epic
Epic 78 pts → Anomaly
  • Directly imaged +16
  • Circumbinary (orbits both stars) +14
  • Orbits beyond Neptune's distance +12
  • Confirmed exoplanet +5
  • Gas giant +4
Total score 51

27 more points to reach Anomaly.

Badges

  • Confirmed exoplanet · +5
  • Gas giant · +4
  • Circumbinary (orbits both stars) · +14
  • Directly imaged · +16
  • Orbits beyond Neptune's distance · +12

Trivia

Hard to believe

  • Denser than iron. It is packed tighter than solid iron — whatever it is made of, it is not ordinary rock.

What it actually is

  • What it is made of. Denser than Earth — a solid world of rock and iron, with no meaningful atmosphere to speak of by mass.

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 15.8 it is far too faint for the eye: this one belongs to cameras and long exposures.
  • 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 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. ≈ 2.7 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).

Properties

circumbinary
yes
density gcc
12.2
diameter km
156901.26
discovery facility
Paranal Observatory
discovery method
Imaging
discovery year
2013
dist ly
153.9456
mag
15.788
mass earth
4131.79
name
2MASS J01033563-5515561 AB b
radius earth
12.3
semi major au
84
spect
M5.5/M6
sys num planets
1
sys num stars
2

About 2MASS J01033563-5515561 AB b

2MASS J01033563-5515561 AB b is an epic exoplanet. It lies about 153.9 light-years from Earth, shines at apparent magnitude 15.79, has spectral type M5.5/M6 and spans roughly 12.3 Earth radii.

Denser than Earth — a solid world of rock and iron, with no meaningful atmosphere to speak of by mass.

How to see it

At apparent magnitude 15.79, it takes a larger telescope or a long-exposure image to capture.

Like any astronomical target, 2MASS J01033563-5515561 AB 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 2MASS J01033563-5515561 AB b is an epic exoplanet

2MASS J01033563-5515561 AB b scores 51 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the epic tier. Another 27 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 5 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Gas giant, Circumbinary (orbits both stars), Directly imaged and Orbits beyond Neptune's distance — 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.