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Uncommon exoplanet 24 EP

HD 87816 b

RA 151.5297° · Dec -52.1879° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 4 badges
24 pts · Uncommon
Uncommon 34 pts → Rare
  • Eccentric orbit +9
  • Multi-planet system +6
  • Confirmed exoplanet +5
  • Gas giant +4
Total score 24

10 more points to reach Rare.

Badges

  • Confirmed exoplanet · +5
  • Gas giant · +4
  • Eccentric orbit · +9
  • Multi-planet system · +6

Trivia

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

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 6.5 it is just past naked-eye reach — ordinary binoculars will pull it in.
  • 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 February — 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. ≈ 7.6 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).

Properties

density gcc
5.75
diameter km
162003.74
discovery facility
La Silla Observatory
discovery method
Radial Velocity
discovery year
2025
dist ly
434.5474
eccentricity
0.78
eq temp k
567.39
host star teff
4989
insolation
17.2656
mag
6.5
mass earth
2142.1635
name
HD 87816 b
orbital period days
484.17
radius earth
12.7
semi major au
1.618
spect
K0 III
sys num planets
2
sys num stars
1

About HD 87816 b

HD 87816 b is an uncommon exoplanet. It lies about 434.5 light-years from Earth, shines at apparent magnitude 6.5, has spectral type K0 III and has an equilibrium temperature near 567 K.

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 6.5, it is an easy target for binoculars.

Like any astronomical target, HD 87816 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 HD 87816 b is an uncommon exoplanet

HD 87816 b scores 24 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the uncommon tier. Another 10 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 4 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Gas giant, Eccentric orbit 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.