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Rare exoplanet 45 EP

KOINTREAU-4 b

RA 246.6160° · Dec -26.4210° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 5 badges
45 pts · Rare
Rare 50 pts → Epic
  • Directly imaged +16
  • Orbits beyond Neptune's distance +12
  • Orbits a red dwarf +8
  • Confirmed exoplanet +5
  • Gas giant +4
Total score 45

5 more points to reach Epic.

Badges

  • Confirmed exoplanet · +5
  • Gas giant · +4
  • Directly imaged · +16
  • Orbits a red dwarf · +8
  • Orbits beyond Neptune's distance · +12

Trivia

Hard to believe

  • Denser than iron. It is packed tighter than solid iron — whatever it is made of, it is not ordinary rock.

What it actually is

  • What it is made of. Denser than Earth — a solid world of rock and iron, with no meaningful atmosphere to speak of by mass.

Sense of scale

  • In perspective. Far away by human standards, yet still a local address inside the Milky Way's spiral arms.

Find it in the sky

  • How to spot it. At magnitude 15.9 it is far too faint for the eye: this one belongs to cameras and long exposures.
  • Southern sky. It rides the southern half of the sky — an easier target the further south you are.
  • Best time of year. It stands highest in the middle of the night around May — that's when to go looking.

Could we get there?

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

Getting there

  • Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 8.3 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).

Properties

density gcc
14.7
diameter km
155625.64
discovery facility
W. M. Keck Observatory
discovery method
Imaging
discovery year
2026
dist ly
474.3417
host star teff
3252
mag
15.902
mass earth
4862.7746
name
KOINTREAU-4 b
radius earth
12.2
semi major au
182
spect
M4.5
sys num planets
1
sys num stars
1

About KOINTREAU-4 b

KOINTREAU-4 b is a rare exoplanet. It lies about 474.3 light-years from Earth, shines at apparent magnitude 15.9, has spectral type M4.5 and spans roughly 12.2 Earth radii.

Denser than Earth — a solid world of rock and iron, with no meaningful atmosphere to speak of by mass.

How to see it

At apparent magnitude 15.9, it takes a larger telescope or a long-exposure image to capture.

Like any astronomical target, KOINTREAU-4 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 KOINTREAU-4 b is a rare exoplanet

KOINTREAU-4 b scores 45 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, Directly imaged, Orbits a red dwarf and Orbits beyond Neptune's distance — 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.