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HD 52265 b

RA 105.0746° · Dec -5.3668° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 2 badges
9 pts · Trash
Trash 15 pts → Common
  • Confirmed exoplanet +5
  • Gas giant +4
Total score 9

6 more points to reach Common.

Badges

  • Confirmed exoplanet · +5
  • Gas giant · +4

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.

Sense of scale

  • In perspective. Inside our stellar backyard: every radio broadcast humanity has ever made has already swept past it.

Find it in the sky

  • How to spot it. At magnitude 6.3 it is just past naked-eye reach — ordinary binoculars will pull it in.
  • Seen from everywhere. It sits almost on the celestial equator, so it can be seen from essentially anywhere on Earth.
  • Best time of year. It stands highest in the middle of the night around January — 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. ≈ 1.7 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).

Properties

density gcc
0.822
diameter km
174759.94
discovery facility
W. M. Keck Observatory
discovery method
Radial Velocity
discovery year
2000
dist ly
97.7825
eccentricity
0.27
eq temp k
405
host star teff
6136
insolation
7.3281
mag
6.2935
mass earth
384.5743
name
HD 52265 b
orbital period days
119.27
radius earth
13.7
semi major au
0.52
spect
G0V
sys num planets
1
sys num stars
1

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About HD 52265 b

HD 52265 b is a trash exoplanet. It lies about 97.8 light-years from Earth, shines at apparent magnitude 6.29, has spectral type G0V and has an equilibrium temperature near 405 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 6.29, it is an easy target for binoculars.

Like any astronomical target, HD 52265 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 52265 b is a trash exoplanet

HD 52265 b scores 9 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the trash tier. Another 6 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 2 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet and Gas giant — 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.