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Rare exoplanet 41 EP

HAT-P-36 b

RA 188.2662° · Dec 44.9154° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 5 badges
41 pts · Rare
Rare 46 pts → Epic
  • Lava world +14
  • Hot Jupiter +10
  • Blasted by starlight +8
  • Confirmed exoplanet +5
  • Gas giant +4
Total score 41

5 more points to reach Epic.

Badges

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

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. ≈ 16.9 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. ≈ 9603 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
  • Distance. 960 light-years from Earth.

Look-back time

  • Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 1066.

Saying hello

  • Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 1921 years round-trip.

Standing on it

  • A year here. A full year lasts just 1.3 Earth days.

By the numbers

  • Size. About 14.3× the width of Earth.
  • Volume. About 2933 Earths could fit inside it.
  • Mass. Roughly 587× Earth's mass — about 1.8 Jupiters.
  • Your weight. You'd weigh about 2.9× your Earth weight standing here.
  • Temperature. Around 1508°C — hotter than a self-cleaning oven.

How we found it

  • Discovery. Found by HATNet using the transit method.

Properties

density gcc
1.175
discovery facility
HATNet
discovery method
Transit
dist ly
960.2652
eccentricity
0.063
eq temp k
1780.97
insolation
1821
mass earth
587.4134
name
HAT-P-36 b
orbital period days
1.3273
radius earth
14.3139
sys num planets
1

About HAT-P-36 b

HAT-P-36 b is a rare exoplanet. It lies about 960.3 light-years from Earth, has an equilibrium temperature near 1,781 K, spans roughly 14.31 Earth radii and weighs about 587.41 Earth masses.

Its surface is likely an ocean of molten rock.

How to see it

Like any astronomical target, HAT-P-36 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 HAT-P-36 b is a rare exoplanet

HAT-P-36 b scores 41 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the rare tier. Another 5 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 5 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Gas giant, Hot Jupiter, Lava world and Blasted by starlight — 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.