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Common exoplanet 21 EP

NGTS-30 b

RA 173.7149° · Dec -24.6055° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 4 badges
21 pts · Common
Common 22 pts → Uncommon
  • Orbits a Sun-like star +8
  • Confirmed exoplanet +5
  • Gas giant +4
  • Found by TESS +4
Total score 21

1 more point to reach Uncommon.

Badges

  • Confirmed exoplanet · +5
  • Gas giant · +4
  • Found by TESS · +4
  • Orbits a Sun-like star · +8

Trivia

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. 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 12.5 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 March — 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. ≈ 13.7 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
  • Fastest probe ever. ≈ 1.2 million years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.

Properties

density gcc
1.49
diameter km
132689.1516
discovery facility
Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)
discovery method
Transit
discovery year
2024
dist ly
777.4809
eccentricity
0.294
eq temp k
500
host star teff
5455
inclination
89.483
insolation
172.857
mag
12.537
mass earth
305.1153
name
NGTS-30 b
orbital period days
98.2984
radius earth
10.4019
semi major au
0.408
sys num planets
1
sys num stars
1

About NGTS-30 b

NGTS-30 b is a common exoplanet. It lies about 777.5 light-years from Earth, shines at apparent magnitude 12.54, has an equilibrium temperature near 500 K and spans roughly 10.4 Earth radii.

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 12.54, it takes a larger telescope or a long-exposure image to capture.

Like any astronomical target, NGTS-30 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 NGTS-30 b is a common exoplanet

NGTS-30 b scores 21 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the common tier. Another 1 point would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 4 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Gas giant, Found by TESS 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.