Epic exoplanet 61 EP

WASP-150 b

RA 264.2630° · Dec 53.0213° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 6 badges

61 pts · Epic

Epic 68 pts → Anomaly

Denser than iron +18
Lava world +14
Hot Jupiter +10
Distant (>1000 ly) +10
Confirmed exoplanet +5
Gas giant +4

Total score 61

7 more points to reach Anomaly.

Badges

Confirmed exoplanet · +5
Gas giant · +4
Hot Jupiter · +10
Lava world · +14
Denser than iron · +18
Distant (>1000 ly) · +10

Trivia

What makes it special

Lava world. Its surface is likely an ocean of molten rock.
Heavyweight. Packed denser than solid iron.

Could we get there?

Verdict. Impossible with our current technology — and the next millennium of it.

Getting there

Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 30.3 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
Fastest probe ever. ≈ 2.7 million years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
At 10% light speed. ≈ 17.2 thousand years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
Distance. 1722 light-years from Earth.

Look-back time

Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 304.

Saying hello

Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 3444 years round-trip.

Standing on it

A year here. A full year lasts just 5.6 Earth days.

By the numbers

Size. About 12× the width of Earth.
Volume. About 1725 Earths could fit inside it.
Mass. Roughly 2689× Earth's mass — about 8.5 Jupiters.
Your weight. You'd weigh about 18.7× your Earth weight standing here.
Density. Denser than solid iron.
Temperature. Around 1187°C — hotter than a self-cleaning oven.

How we found it

Discovery. Found by SuperWASP-North using the transit method.

Properties

density gcc: 8.54
discovery facility: SuperWASP-North
discovery method: Transit
dist ly: 1722.0874
eccentricity: 0.3775
eq temp k: 1460
insolation: 854.7074
mass earth: 2688.8418
name: WASP-150 b
orbital period days: 5.6442
radius earth: 11.9936
sys num planets: 1

About WASP-150 b

WASP-150 b is an epic exoplanet. It lies about 1,722.1 light-years from Earth, has an equilibrium temperature near 1,460 K, spans roughly 11.99 Earth radii and weighs about 2,688.84 Earth masses.

Its surface is likely an ocean of molten rock.

How to see it

Like any astronomical target, WASP-150 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 WASP-150 b is an epic exoplanet

WASP-150 b scores 61 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the epic tier. Another 7 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 6 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Gas giant, Hot Jupiter, Lava world, Denser than iron and Distant (>1000 ly) — 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.