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Rare exoplanet 35 EP

LHS 1815 b

RA 91.0900° · Dec -55.3115° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 4 badges
35 pts · Rare
Rare 50 pts → Epic
  • Earth-sized +16
  • Tidally locked +10
  • Confirmed exoplanet +5
  • Found by TESS +4
Total score 35

15 more points to reach Epic.

Badges

  • Confirmed exoplanet · +5
  • Earth-sized · +16
  • Tidally locked · +10
  • Found by TESS · +4

Trivia

What makes it special

  • Earth-sized. Genuinely comparable to Earth in size. Worlds in this narrow band are the ones every next-generation telescope is being pointed at.

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.
  • What it is made of. Denser than Earth — a solid world of rock and iron, with no meaningful atmosphere to speak of by mass.

Sense of scale

  • In perspective. Inside our stellar backyard: every radio broadcast humanity has ever made has already swept past it.

Find it in the sky

  • How to spot it. At magnitude 12.2 it is far too faint for the eye: this one belongs to cameras and long exposures.
  • 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 December — that's when to go looking.

Could we get there?

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

Properties

density gcc
6.7
diameter km
13878.7456
discovery facility
Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)
discovery method
Transit
discovery year
2020
dist ly
97.3328
eccentricity
0
eq temp k
617
host star teff
3643
inclination
88.125
insolation
26.3712
mag
12.167
mass earth
1.58
name
LHS 1815 b
orbital period days
3.8143
radius earth
1.088
semi major au
0.0404
spect
M1
sys num planets
1
sys num stars
1
tidally locked
yes
tidally locked inferred
yes

About LHS 1815 b

LHS 1815 b is a rare exoplanet. It lies about 97.3 light-years from Earth, shines at apparent magnitude 12.17, has spectral type M1 and has an equilibrium temperature near 617 K.

Genuinely comparable to Earth in size. Worlds in this narrow band are the ones every next-generation telescope is being pointed at.

How to see it

At apparent magnitude 12.17, it takes a larger telescope or a long-exposure image to capture.

Like any astronomical target, LHS 1815 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 LHS 1815 b is a rare exoplanet

LHS 1815 b scores 35 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the rare tier. Another 15 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 4 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Earth-sized, Tidally locked 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.