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Rare exoplanet 35 EP

HD 141399 b

RA 236.7235° · Dec 46.9863° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 5 badges
35 pts · Rare
Rare 50 pts → Epic
  • Puffy low-density world +12
  • Orbits a Sun-like star +8
  • Multi-planet system +6
  • Confirmed exoplanet +5
  • Gas giant +4
Total score 35

15 more points to reach Epic.

Badges

  • Confirmed exoplanet · +5
  • Gas giant · +4
  • Puffy low-density world · +12
  • Multi-planet system · +6
  • Orbits a Sun-like star · +8

Trivia

Hard to believe

  • It would float. It is less dense than water. Drop it in a big enough ocean and the whole world would bob on the surface.

What it actually is

  • What it is made of. Lighter than Neptune — a puffed-up ball of hydrogen and helium with no surface anywhere on it to stand on.
  • Crowded system. One of at least 4 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 7.2 it is just past naked-eye reach — ordinary binoculars will pull it in.
  • Northern sky. It rides the northern half of the sky — an easier target the further north 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.

Properties

density gcc
0.269
diameter km
182413.66
discovery facility
Multiple Observatories
discovery method
Radial Velocity
discovery year
2014
dist ly
120.7328
eccentricity
0.04
eq temp k
493.71
host star teff
5600
insolation
9.2321
mag
7.2086
mass earth
143.3413
name
HD 141399 b
orbital period days
94.44
radius earth
14.3
semi major au
0.415
spect
K0
sys num planets
4
sys num stars
1

About HD 141399 b

HD 141399 b is a rare exoplanet. It lies about 120.7 light-years from Earth, shines at apparent magnitude 7.21, has spectral type K0 and has an equilibrium temperature near 494 K.

Lighter than Neptune — a puffed-up ball of hydrogen and helium with no surface anywhere on it to stand on.

How to see it

At apparent magnitude 7.21, it is an easy target for binoculars.

Like any astronomical target, HD 141399 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 141399 b is a rare exoplanet

HD 141399 b scores 35 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the rare tier. Another 15 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 5 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Gas giant, Puffy low-density world, Multi-planet system and Orbits a Sun-like star — 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.