Epic exoplanet 49 EP

LHS 1140 b

RA 11.2486° · Dec -15.2741° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 4 badges

49 pts · Epic

Epic 68 pts → Anomaly

In the habitable zone +30
Super-Earth +8
Multi-planet system +6
Confirmed exoplanet +5

Total score 49

19 more points to reach Anomaly.

Badges

Confirmed exoplanet · +5
In the habitable zone · +30
Super-Earth · +8
Multi-planet system · +6

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. ≈ 858.9 thousand years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
Fastest probe ever. ≈ 76.3 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
At 10% light speed. ≈ 489 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
Distance. 48.9 light-years from Earth.

Look-back time

Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 1977.

Saying hello

Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 97.8 years round-trip.

Standing on it

A year here. A full year lasts just 24.7 Earth days.

By the numbers

Size. About 1.7× the width of Earth.
Volume. About 5.2 Earths could fit inside it.
Mass. About 5.6× the mass of Earth.
Your weight. You'd weigh about 1.9× your Earth weight standing here.
Temperature. A frigid -47°C — colder than dry ice.

How we found it

Discovery. Found by MEarth Project using the transit method.

Cosmic context

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

Properties

density gcc: 5.9
discovery facility: MEarth Project
discovery method: Transit
dist ly: 48.8781
eccentricity: 0.043
eq temp k: 226
habitable zone: yes
insolation: 0.43
mass earth: 5.6
name: LHS 1140 b
orbital period days: 24.7372
radius earth: 1.73
sys num planets: 2

About LHS 1140 b

LHS 1140 b is an epic exoplanet. It lies about 48.9 light-years from Earth, has an equilibrium temperature near 226 K, spans roughly 1.73 Earth radii and weighs about 5.6 Earth masses.

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

How to see it

Like any astronomical target, LHS 1140 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 1140 b is an epic exoplanet

LHS 1140 b scores 49 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the epic tier. Another 19 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 4 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, In the habitable zone, Super-Earth 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.