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Rare exoplanet 36 EP

TOI-6692 b

RA 312.6940° · Dec -81.2724° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 6 badges
36 pts · Rare
Rare 50 pts → Epic
  • Eccentric orbit +9
  • Orbits a Sun-like star +8
  • Distant (over 1,000 light-years) +6
  • Confirmed exoplanet +5
  • Gas giant +4
  • Found by TESS +4
Total score 36

14 more points to reach Epic.

Badges

  • Confirmed exoplanet · +5
  • Distant (over 1,000 light-years) · +6
  • Gas giant · +4
  • Eccentric orbit · +9
  • Found by TESS · +4
  • Orbits a Sun-like star · +8

Trivia

Hard to believe

  • It would float. It is less dense than water. Drop it in a big enough ocean and the whole world would bob on the surface.

What it actually is

  • What it is made of. Lighter than Neptune — a puffed-up ball of hydrogen and helium with no surface anywhere on it to stand on.

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 11.4 you'll want a small backyard telescope.
  • Southern sky only. So far south it never rises for most of the northern hemisphere. To see it you'd have to travel to Chile, South Africa or Australia.
  • 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. Impossible with our current technology — and the next millennium of it.

Getting there

  • Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 17.9 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).

Properties

density gcc
0.68
diameter km
148989.3276
discovery facility
Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)
discovery method
Transit
discovery year
2026
dist ly
1020.5519
eccentricity
0.537
eq temp k
467
host star teff
5890
inclination
89.483
insolation
182.3533
mag
11.434
mass earth
197.0536
name
TOI-6692 b
orbital period days
131.125
radius earth
11.6798
semi major au
0.512
sys num planets
1
sys num stars
1

About TOI-6692 b

TOI-6692 b is a rare exoplanet. It lies about 1,020.6 light-years from Earth, shines at apparent magnitude 11.43, has an equilibrium temperature near 467 K and spans roughly 11.68 Earth radii.

Lighter than Neptune — a puffed-up ball of hydrogen and helium with no surface anywhere on it to stand on.

How to see it

At apparent magnitude 11.43, a small backyard telescope will bring it into view.

Like any astronomical target, TOI-6692 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 TOI-6692 b is a rare exoplanet

TOI-6692 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 6 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Distant (over 1,000 light-years), Gas giant, Eccentric orbit, Found by TESS and Orbits a Sun-like star — 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.