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Rare exoplanet 45 EP

TOI-1181 b

RA 297.2158° · Dec 64.3544° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 6 badges
45 pts · Rare
Rare 46 pts → Epic
  • Lava world +14
  • Hot Jupiter +10
  • Blasted by starlight +8
  • Confirmed exoplanet +5
  • Gas giant +4
  • Found by TESS +4
Total score 45

1 more point to reach Epic.

Badges

  • Confirmed exoplanet · +5
  • Gas giant · +4
  • Hot Jupiter · +10
  • Lava world · +14
  • Blasted by starlight · +8
  • Found by TESS · +4

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. ≈ 17.4 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
  • Fastest probe ever. ≈ 1.5 million years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
  • At 10% light speed. ≈ 9877 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
  • Distance. 988 light-years from Earth.

Look-back time

  • Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 1038.

Saying hello

  • Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 1975 years round-trip.

Standing on it

  • A year here. A full year lasts just 2.1 Earth days.

By the numbers

  • Size. About 17× the width of Earth.
  • Volume. About 4936 Earths could fit inside it.
  • Mass. Roughly 375× Earth's mass — about 1.2 Jupiters.
  • Your weight. You'd weigh about 1.3× your Earth weight standing here.
  • Density. Less dense than water — drop it in a big enough ocean and it would float.
  • Temperature. Around 1669°C — hotter than a self-cleaning oven.

How we found it

  • Discovery. Found by Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) using the transit method.

Properties

density gcc
0.49
discovery facility
Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)
discovery method
Transit
dist ly
987.6623
eccentricity
0.011
eq temp k
1942.12
insolation
14140
mass earth
374.7197
name
TOI-1181 b
orbital period days
2.1032
radius earth
17.0264
sys num planets
1

About TOI-1181 b

TOI-1181 b is a rare exoplanet. It lies about 987.7 light-years from Earth, has an equilibrium temperature near 1,942 K, spans roughly 17.03 Earth radii and weighs about 374.72 Earth masses.

Its surface is likely an ocean of molten rock.

How to see it

Like any astronomical target, TOI-1181 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 TOI-1181 b is a rare exoplanet

TOI-1181 b scores 45 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the rare tier. Another 1 point would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 6 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Gas giant, Hot Jupiter, Lava world, Blasted by starlight 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.

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Sky imagery and survey data courtesy of Aladin Lite & CDS, Strasbourg. Object data from the NASA Exoplanet Archive, JPL Small-Body Database, and the ATNF Pulsar Catalogue.