Anomaly exoplanet 72 EP

VHS J125601.92-125723.9 b

RA 194.0090° · Dec -12.9560° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 7 badges

72 pts · Anomaly

Anomaly 95 pts → Mythic

Denser than iron +18
Directly imaged +16
Hot Jupiter +10
Long-period world +10
Eccentric orbit +9
Confirmed exoplanet +5
Gas giant +4

Total score 72

23 more points to reach Mythic.

Badges

Confirmed exoplanet · +5
Gas giant · +4
Hot Jupiter · +10
Long-period world · +10
Eccentric orbit · +9
Denser than iron · +18
Directly imaged · +16

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. ≈ 727.9 thousand years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
Fastest probe ever. ≈ 64.7 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
At 10% light speed. ≈ 414 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
Distance. 41.4 light-years from Earth.

Look-back time

Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 1985.

Saying hello

Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 82.8 years round-trip.

Standing on it

A year here. A full year lasts about 15.9 thousand Earth years.

By the numbers

Size. About 13.7× the width of Earth.
Volume. About 2557 Earths could fit inside it.
Mass. Roughly 5085× Earth's mass — about 16 Jupiters.
Your weight. You'd weigh about 27.2× your Earth weight standing here.
Density. Denser than solid iron.
Temperature. Around 921°C — hotter than a self-cleaning oven.

How we found it

Discovery. Found by Paranal Observatory using the imaging method.

Properties

density gcc: 10.9
discovery facility: Paranal Observatory
discovery method: Imaging
dist ly: 41.4218
eccentricity: 0.68
eq temp k: 1194
insolation: 0
mass earth: 5085.2545
name: VHS J125601.92-125723.9 b
orbital period days: 5800000
radius earth: 13.675
sys num planets: 1

About VHS J125601.92-125723.9 b

VHS J125601.92-125723.9 b is an anomaly exoplanet. It lies about 41.4 light-years from Earth, has an equilibrium temperature near 1,194 K, spans roughly 13.67 Earth radii and weighs about 5,085.25 Earth masses.

Packed denser than solid iron.

How to see it

Like any astronomical target, VHS J125601.92-125723.9 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 VHS J125601.92-125723.9 b is an anomaly exoplanet

VHS J125601.92-125723.9 b scores 72 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the anomaly tier. Another 23 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 7 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Gas giant, Hot Jupiter, Long-period world, Eccentric orbit, Denser than iron and Directly imaged — 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.