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Epic exoplanet 55 EP

WASP-167 b

RA 196.0438° · Dec -35.5495° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 6 badges
55 pts · Epic
Epic 78 pts → Anomaly
  • Ultra-hot Jupiter +26
  • Tidally locked +10
  • Distant (over 1,000 light-years) +6
  • Confirmed exoplanet +5
  • Gas giant +4
  • Blasted by starlight +4
Total score 55

23 more points to reach Anomaly.

Badges

  • Confirmed exoplanet · +5
  • Distant (over 1,000 light-years) · +6
  • Gas giant · +4
  • Ultra-hot Jupiter · +26
  • Tidally locked · +10
  • Blasted by starlight · +4

Trivia

What makes it special

  • Ultra-hot Jupiter. So hot that iron vaporises on the dayside, blows around to the night side and rains back down as molten metal.

What it actually is

  • Hugging its star. It orbits closer to its star than Mercury does to the Sun, completing a lap in less time than Mercury takes.

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 10.5 you'll want a small backyard telescope.
  • 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 April — 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. ≈ 24.3 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).

Properties

diameter km
225915.1084
discovery facility
Multiple Observatories
discovery method
Transit
discovery year
2017
dist ly
1381.4403
eq temp k
2329
host star teff
7000
inclination
79.9
insolation
3208.41
mag
10.517
mass earth
2542.64
name
WASP-167 b
orbital period days
2.022
radius earth
17.7102
semi major au
0.0365
spect
F1 V
sys num planets
1
sys num stars
1
tidally locked
yes
tidally locked inferred
yes

About WASP-167 b

WASP-167 b is an epic exoplanet. It lies about 1,381.4 light-years from Earth, shines at apparent magnitude 10.52, has spectral type F1 V and has an equilibrium temperature near 2,329 K.

So hot that iron vaporises on the dayside, blows around to the night side and rains back down as molten metal.

How to see it

At apparent magnitude 10.52, a small backyard telescope will bring it into view.

Like any astronomical target, WASP-167 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 WASP-167 b is an epic exoplanet

WASP-167 b scores 55 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the epic tier. Another 23 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, Ultra-hot Jupiter, Tidally locked and Blasted by starlight — 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.