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Common exoplanet 16 EP

HD 18143 b

RA 43.9140° · Dec 26.8724° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 3 badges
16 pts · Common
Common 22 pts → Uncommon
  • Multi-planet system +6
  • Confirmed exoplanet +5
  • Sub-Neptune +5
Total score 16

6 more points to reach Uncommon.

Badges

  • Confirmed exoplanet · +5
  • Sub-Neptune · +5
  • Multi-planet system · +6

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. Too light to be solid rock and too heavy to be all gas: most likely a deep global ocean or a thick steamy envelope over a rocky core.
  • Crowded system. One of at least 2 planets orbiting its star.

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 7.5 it is just past naked-eye reach — ordinary binoculars will pull it in.
  • Northern sky. It rides the northern half of the sky — an easier target the further north you are.
  • Best time of year. It stands highest in the middle of the night around November — that's when to go looking.

Could we get there?

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

Properties

density gcc
1.68
diameter km
41840.336
discovery facility
Multiple Observatories
discovery method
Radial Velocity
discovery year
2022
dist ly
73.4644
eccentricity
0.224
eq temp k
769.92
host star teff
5078
insolation
61.873
mag
7.518
mass earth
10.8062
name
HD 18143 b
orbital period days
10.2851
radius earth
3.28
semi major au
0.088
spect
K2
sys num planets
2
sys num stars
1

About HD 18143 b

HD 18143 b is a common exoplanet. It lies about 73.5 light-years from Earth, shines at apparent magnitude 7.52, has spectral type K2 and has an equilibrium temperature near 770 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 7.52, it is an easy target for binoculars.

Like any astronomical target, HD 18143 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 18143 b is a common exoplanet

HD 18143 b scores 16 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the common tier. Another 6 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 3 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Sub-Neptune and Multi-planet system — 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.