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Uncommon exoplanet 27 EP

TOI-1235 b

RA 152.2183° · Dec 69.2766° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 4 badges
27 pts · Uncommon
Uncommon 34 pts → Rare
  • Tidally locked +10
  • Super-Earth +8
  • Confirmed exoplanet +5
  • Found by TESS +4
Total score 27

7 more points to reach Rare.

Badges

  • Confirmed exoplanet · +5
  • Super-Earth · +8
  • Tidally locked · +10
  • Found by TESS · +4

Trivia

What it actually is

  • Hugging its star. It orbits closer to its star than Mercury does to the Sun, completing a lap in less time than Mercury takes.
  • What it is made of. Denser than Earth — a solid world of rock and iron, with no meaningful atmosphere to speak of by mass.

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 11.5 you'll want a small backyard telescope.
  • Never sets. So far north that from Britain, Canada or northern Europe it never dips below the horizon — it is up every clear night of the year.
  • Best time of year. It stands highest in the middle of the night around February — 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. ≈ 2.3 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).

Properties

density gcc
7.25
diameter km
21557.978
discovery facility
Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)
discovery method
Transit
discovery year
2020
dist ly
129.2703
eccentricity
0.049
eq temp k
775
host star teff
3997
inclination
88.9
insolation
60.3
mag
11.495
mass earth
6.69
name
TOI-1235 b
orbital period days
3.4447
radius earth
1.69
semi major au
0.0384
spect
M0.5 V
sys num planets
1
sys num stars
1
tidally locked
yes
tidally locked inferred
yes

About TOI-1235 b

TOI-1235 b is an uncommon exoplanet. It lies about 129.3 light-years from Earth, shines at apparent magnitude 11.49, has spectral type M0.5 V and has an equilibrium temperature near 775 K.

It orbits closer to its star than Mercury does to the Sun, completing a lap in less time than Mercury takes.

How to see it

At apparent magnitude 11.49, a small backyard telescope will bring it into view.

Like any astronomical target, TOI-1235 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-1235 b is an uncommon exoplanet

TOI-1235 b scores 27 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the uncommon tier. Another 7 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 4 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Super-Earth, Tidally locked 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.