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Common exoplanet 16 EP

GJ 3138 d

RA 32.2977° · Dec -16.3392° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 3 badges
16 pts · Common
Common 22 pts → Uncommon
  • Multi-planet system +6
  • Confirmed exoplanet +5
  • Sub-Neptune +5
Total score 16

6 more points to reach Uncommon.

Badges

  • Confirmed exoplanet · +5
  • Sub-Neptune · +5
  • Multi-planet system · +6

Trivia

What it actually is

  • What it is made of. Too light to be solid rock and too heavy to be all gas: most likely a deep global ocean or a thick steamy envelope over a rocky core.
  • Crowded system. One of at least 3 planets orbiting its star.

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 10.8 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 October — that's when to go looking.

Could we get there?

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

Getting there

  • Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 1.6 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).

Properties

density gcc
1.71
diameter km
41202.526
discovery facility
La Silla Observatory
discovery method
Radial Velocity
discovery year
2017
dist ly
92.8605
eccentricity
0.32
eq temp k
151.7
host star teff
3717
insolation
0.1
mag
10.8275
mass earth
10.5
name
GJ 3138 d
orbital period days
257.8
radius earth
3.23
semi major au
0.698
spect
M0
sys num planets
3
sys num stars
1

About GJ 3138 d

GJ 3138 d is a common exoplanet. It lies about 92.9 light-years from Earth, shines at apparent magnitude 10.83, has spectral type M0 and has an equilibrium temperature near 152 K.

Too light to be solid rock and too heavy to be all gas: most likely a deep global ocean or a thick steamy envelope over a rocky core.

How to see it

At apparent magnitude 10.83, a small backyard telescope will bring it into view.

Like any astronomical target, GJ 3138 d 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 GJ 3138 d is a common exoplanet

GJ 3138 d scores 16 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the common tier. Another 6 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 3 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Sub-Neptune and Multi-planet system — 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.