Rare exoplanet 39 EP

HD 132406 b

RA 224.2276° · Dec 53.3810° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 3 badges

39 pts · Rare

Rare 46 pts → Epic

In the habitable zone +30
Confirmed exoplanet +5
Gas giant +4

Total score 39

7 more points to reach Epic.

Badges

Confirmed exoplanet · +5
In the habitable zone · +30
Gas giant · +4

Trivia

What makes it special

Goldilocks zone. Sits where it's neither too hot nor too cold — liquid water could exist.

Could we get there?

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

Getting there

Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 4.1 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
Fastest probe ever. ≈ 360.5 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
At 10% light speed. ≈ 2309 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
Distance. 231 light-years from Earth.

Look-back time

Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 1795.

Saying hello

Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 462 years round-trip.

Standing on it

A year here. A full year lasts about 2.5 Earth years.

By the numbers

Size. About 12.8× the width of Earth.
Volume. About 2097 Earths could fit inside it.
Mass. Roughly 1888× Earth's mass — about 5.9 Jupiters.
Your weight. You'd weigh about 11.5× your Earth weight standing here.
Temperature. A frigid -44°C — colder than dry ice.

How we found it

Discovery. Found by Haute-Provence Observatory using the radial velocity method.

Properties

density gcc: 4.95
discovery facility: Haute-Provence Observatory
discovery method: Radial Velocity
dist ly: 230.8637
eccentricity: 0.25
eq temp k: 228.73
habitable zone: yes
insolation: 0.4641
mass earth: 1887.9007
name: HD 132406 b
orbital period days: 908
radius earth: 12.8
sys num planets: 1

About HD 132406 b

HD 132406 b is a rare exoplanet. It lies about 230.9 light-years from Earth, has an equilibrium temperature near 229 K, spans roughly 12.8 Earth radii and weighs about 1,887.9 Earth masses.

Sits where it's neither too hot nor too cold — liquid water could exist.

How to see it

Like any astronomical target, HD 132406 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 HD 132406 b is a rare exoplanet

HD 132406 b scores 39 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the rare tier. Another 7 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 3 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, In the habitable zone and Gas giant — 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.