Rare exoplanet 37 EP

TOI-2498 b

RA 95.4162° · Dec 11.2516° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 5 badges

37 pts · Rare

Rare 46 pts → Epic

Lava world +14
Hot Jupiter +10
Confirmed exoplanet +5
Gas giant +4
Found by TESS +4

Total score 37

9 more points to reach Epic.

Badges

Confirmed exoplanet · +5
Gas giant · +4
Hot Jupiter · +10
Lava world · +14
Found by TESS · +4

Trivia

What makes it special

Lava world. Its surface is likely an ocean of molten rock.

Could we get there?

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

Getting there

Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 15.8 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
Fastest probe ever. ≈ 1.4 million years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
At 10% light speed. ≈ 8978 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
Distance. 898 light-years from Earth.

Look-back time

Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 1128.

Saying hello

Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 1796 years round-trip.

Standing on it

A year here. A full year lasts just 3.7 Earth days.

By the numbers

Size. About 6.1× the width of Earth.
Volume. About 223 Earths could fit inside it.
Mass. About 34.6× the mass of Earth.
Your weight. You'd weigh about 0.9× your Earth weight standing here.
Density. Less dense than water — drop it in a big enough ocean and it would float.
Temperature. Around 1170°C — hotter than a self-cleaning oven.

How we found it

Discovery. Found by Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) using the transit method.

Properties

density gcc: 0.86
discovery facility: Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)
discovery method: Transit
dist ly: 897.7933
eccentricity: 0.089
eq temp k: 1443
insolation: 790.4759
mass earth: 34.62
name: TOI-2498 b
orbital period days: 3.7383
radius earth: 6.06
sys num planets: 1

About TOI-2498 b

TOI-2498 b is a rare exoplanet. It lies about 897.8 light-years from Earth, has an equilibrium temperature near 1,443 K, spans roughly 6.06 Earth radii and weighs about 34.62 Earth masses.

Its surface is likely an ocean of molten rock.

How to see it

Like any astronomical target, TOI-2498 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 TOI-2498 b is a rare exoplanet

TOI-2498 b scores 37 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the rare tier. Another 9 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 5 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Gas giant, Hot Jupiter, Lava world and Found by TESS — 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.