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Rare exoplanet 37 EP

NGTS-14 A b

RA 328.5175° · Dec -38.3774° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 5 badges
37 pts · Rare
Rare 50 pts → Epic
  • Two suns in its sky +12
  • Tidally locked +10
  • Distant (over 1,000 light-years) +6
  • Confirmed exoplanet +5
  • Neptune-like +4
Total score 37

13 more points to reach Epic.

Badges

  • Confirmed exoplanet · +5
  • Distant (over 1,000 light-years) · +6
  • Neptune-like · +4
  • Tidally locked · +10
  • Two suns in its sky · +12

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. 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 13.3 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 August — that's when to go looking.

Could we get there?

  • Verdict. Impossible with our current technology — and the next millennium of it.

Getting there

  • Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 18.5 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).

Properties

density gcc
1.395
diameter km
63485.0051
discovery facility
Next-Generation Transit Survey (NGTS)
discovery method
Transit
discovery year
2021
dist ly
1050.705
eccentricity
0
eq temp k
1143
host star teff
5187
inclination
86.7
insolation
191.782
mag
13.268
mass earth
29.2404
multi star system
yes
name
NGTS-14 A b
orbital period days
3.5357
radius earth
4.9768
semi major au
0.0403
spect
K1 V
sys num planets
1
sys num stars
2
tidally locked
yes
tidally locked inferred
yes

About NGTS-14 A b

NGTS-14 A b is a rare exoplanet. It lies about 1,050.7 light-years from Earth, shines at apparent magnitude 13.27, has spectral type K1 V and has an equilibrium temperature near 1,143 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 13.27, it takes a larger telescope or a long-exposure image to capture.

Like any astronomical target, NGTS-14 A 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-14 A b is a rare exoplanet

NGTS-14 A b scores 37 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the rare tier. Another 13 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 5 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Distant (over 1,000 light-years), Neptune-like, Tidally locked and Two suns in its sky — 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.