About PSR B1620-26 b
PSR B1620-26 b is a trash exoplanet. It spans roughly 13.3 Earth radii, weighs about 794.58 Earth masses and belongs to a system of 1 known planets.
About 13.3× the width of Earth.
Trash exoplanet 9 EP
PSR B1620-26 b
RA 245.9093° · Dec -26.5316° · exoplanet
Score breakdown
· 2 badgesTrash 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
By the numbers
- Size. About 13.3× the width of Earth.
- Volume. About 2353 Earths could fit inside it.
- Mass. Roughly 795× Earth's mass — about 2.5 Jupiters.
- Your weight. You'd weigh about 4.5× your Earth weight standing here.
How we found it
- Discovery. Found by Hubble Space Telescope using the pulsar timing method.
Properties
- density gcc
- 1.86
- discovery facility
- Hubble Space Telescope
- discovery method
- Pulsar Timing
- mass earth
- 794.575
- name
- PSR B1620-26 b
- radius earth
- 13.3
- sys num planets
- 1
How to see it
Like any astronomical target, PSR B1620-26 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 PSR B1620-26 b is a trash exoplanet
PSR B1620-26 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.