Common exoplanet 19 EP

TIC 279401253 b

RA 57.6572° · Dec -15.0262° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 4 badges

19 pts · Common

Common 24 pts → Uncommon

Multi-planet system +6
Confirmed exoplanet +5
Gas giant +4
Found by TESS +4

Total score 19

5 more points to reach Uncommon.

Badges

Confirmed exoplanet · +5
Gas giant · +4
Multi-planet system · +6
Found by TESS · +4

Trivia

Could we get there?

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

Getting there

Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 16.4 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
Fastest probe ever. ≈ 1.5 million years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
At 10% light speed. ≈ 9314 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
Distance. 931 light-years from Earth.

Look-back time

Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 1095.

Saying hello

Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 1863 years round-trip.

Standing on it

A year here. A full year lasts just 76.8 Earth days.

By the numbers

Size. About 11.2× the width of Earth.
Volume. About 1408 Earths could fit inside it.
Mass. Roughly 1951× Earth's mass — about 6.1 Jupiters.
Your weight. You'd weigh about 15.5× your Earth weight standing here.
Temperature. A scorching 213°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 2 planets orbiting its star.

Properties

density gcc: 7.61
discovery facility: Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)
discovery method: Transit
dist ly: 931.4494
eccentricity: 0.448
eq temp k: 486.37
insolation: 9.1803
mass earth: 1951.4664
name: TIC 279401253 b
orbital period days: 76.8
radius earth: 11.209
sys num planets: 2

About TIC 279401253 b

TIC 279401253 b is a common exoplanet. It lies about 931.4 light-years from Earth, has an equilibrium temperature near 486 K, spans roughly 11.21 Earth radii and weighs about 1,951.47 Earth masses.

One of at least 2 planets orbiting its star.

How to see it

Like any astronomical target, TIC 279401253 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 TIC 279401253 b is a common exoplanet

TIC 279401253 b scores 19 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the common tier. Another 5 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 4 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Gas giant, 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.