Uncommon exoplanet 31 EP

HAT-P-26 b

RA 213.1566° · Dec 4.0594° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 4 badges

31 pts · Uncommon

Uncommon 33 pts → Rare

Puffy low-density world +12
Hot Jupiter +10
Confirmed exoplanet +5
Gas giant +4

Total score 31

2 more points to reach Rare.

Badges

Confirmed exoplanet · +5
Gas giant · +4
Hot Jupiter · +10
Puffy low-density world · +12

Trivia

What makes it special

Cotton-candy planet. So low-density it would float on water.

Could we get there?

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

Getting there

Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 8.1 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
Fastest probe ever. ≈ 722.3 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
At 10% light speed. ≈ 4626 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
Distance. 463 light-years from Earth.

Look-back time

Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 1563.

Saying hello

Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 925 years round-trip.

Standing on it

A year here. A full year lasts just 4.2 Earth days.

By the numbers

Size. About 7.1× the width of Earth.
Volume. About 352 Earths could fit inside it.
Mass. About 22.2× the mass of Earth.
Your weight. You'd weigh about 0.4× your Earth weight standing here.
Density. Less dense than water — drop it in a big enough ocean and it would float.
Temperature. Around 807°C — hotter than a self-cleaning oven.

How we found it

Discovery. Found by HATNet using the transit method.

Properties

density gcc: 0.2586
discovery facility: HATNet
discovery method: Transit
dist ly: 462.6099
eccentricity: 0.12
eq temp k: 1080
insolation: 185.0743
mass earth: 22.2481
name: HAT-P-26 b
orbital period days: 4.2345
radius earth: 7.0617
sys num planets: 1

About HAT-P-26 b

HAT-P-26 b is an uncommon exoplanet. It lies about 462.6 light-years from Earth, has an equilibrium temperature near 1,080 K, spans roughly 7.06 Earth radii and weighs about 22.25 Earth masses.

So low-density it would float on water.

How to see it

Like any astronomical target, HAT-P-26 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 HAT-P-26 b is an uncommon exoplanet

HAT-P-26 b scores 31 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the uncommon tier. Another 2 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 4 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Gas giant, Hot Jupiter and Puffy low-density world — 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.