Epic exoplanet 55 EP

WISPIT 2 c

RA 290.8210° · Dec -7.6821° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 6 badges

55 pts · Epic

Epic 68 pts → Anomaly

Directly imaged +16
Lava world +14
Hot Jupiter +10
Multi-planet system +6
Confirmed exoplanet +5
Gas giant +4

Total score 55

13 more points to reach Anomaly.

Badges

Confirmed exoplanet · +5
Gas giant · +4
Hot Jupiter · +10
Lava world · +14
Multi-planet system · +6
Directly imaged · +16

Trivia

What makes it special

Lava world. Its surface is likely an ocean of molten rock.

Could we get there?

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

Getting there

Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 7.7 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
Fastest probe ever. ≈ 687 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
At 10% light speed. ≈ 4400 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
Distance. 440 light-years from Earth.

Look-back time

Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 1586.

Saying hello

Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 880 years round-trip.

By the numbers

Size. About 17.9× the width of Earth.
Volume. About 5768 Earths could fit inside it.
Mass. Roughly 3178× Earth's mass — about 10 Jupiters.
Your weight. You'd weigh about 9.9× your Earth weight standing here.
Temperature. Around 2050 K — hot enough to vaporise iron.

How we found it

Discovery. Found by Multiple Observatories using the imaging method.

Cosmic context

Crowded system. One of at least 2 planets orbiting its star.

Properties

density gcc: 3.03
discovery facility: Multiple Observatories
discovery method: Imaging
dist ly: 440.0073
eq temp k: 2050
insolation: 0.0034
mass earth: 3178.2841
name: WISPIT 2 c
radius earth: 17.9344
sys num planets: 2

About WISPIT 2 c

WISPIT 2 c is an epic exoplanet. It lies about 440 light-years from Earth, has an equilibrium temperature near 2,050 K, spans roughly 17.93 Earth radii and weighs about 3,178.28 Earth masses.

Its surface is likely an ocean of molten rock.

How to see it

Like any astronomical target, WISPIT 2 c 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 WISPIT 2 c is an epic exoplanet

WISPIT 2 c scores 55 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the epic tier. Another 13 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 6 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Gas giant, Hot Jupiter, Lava world, Multi-planet system 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.