Rare exoplanet 41 EP

PDS 70 c

RA 212.0421° · Dec -41.3980° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 5 badges

41 pts · Rare

Rare 46 pts → Epic

Directly imaged +16
Hot Jupiter +10
Multi-planet system +6
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
Multi-planet system · +6
Directly imaged · +16

Trivia

Could we get there?

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

Getting there

Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 6.5 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
Fastest probe ever. ≈ 575.8 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
At 10% light speed. ≈ 3688 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
Distance. 369 light-years from Earth.

Look-back time

Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 1657.

Saying hello

Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 738 years round-trip.

By the numbers

Size. About 22.2× the width of Earth.
Volume. About 10.9 thousand Earths could fit inside it.
Mass. Roughly 2384× Earth's mass — about 7.5 Jupiters.
Your weight. You'd weigh about 4.8× your Earth weight standing here.
Temperature. Around 781°C — hotter than a self-cleaning oven.

How we found it

Discovery. Found by European Southern Observatory using the imaging method.

Cosmic context

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

Properties

density gcc: 1.2
discovery facility: European Southern Observatory
discovery method: Imaging
dist ly: 368.765
eccentricity: 0.037
eq temp k: 1054
insolation: 0.0003
mass earth: 2383.7131
name: PDS 70 c
radius earth: 22.1938
sys num planets: 2

About PDS 70 c

PDS 70 c is a rare exoplanet. It lies about 368.8 light-years from Earth, has an equilibrium temperature near 1,054 K, spans roughly 22.19 Earth radii and weighs about 2,383.71 Earth masses.

One of at least 2 planets orbiting its star.

How to see it

Like any astronomical target, PDS 70 c 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 PDS 70 c is a rare exoplanet

PDS 70 c 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, Multi-planet system and Directly imaged — 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.