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Epic exoplanet 67 EP

G 196-3 b

RA 151.0885° · Dec 50.3862° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 6 badges
67 pts · Epic
Epic 68 pts → Anomaly
  • Denser than iron +18
  • Directly imaged +16
  • Lava world +14
  • Hot Jupiter +10
  • Confirmed exoplanet +5
  • Gas giant +4
Total score 67

1 more point to reach Anomaly.

Badges

  • Confirmed exoplanet · +5
  • Gas giant · +4
  • Hot Jupiter · +10
  • Lava world · +14
  • Denser than iron · +18
  • Directly imaged · +16

Trivia

What makes it special

  • Lava world. Its surface is likely an ocean of molten rock.
  • Heavyweight. Packed denser than solid iron.

Could we get there?

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

Getting there

  • Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 1.2 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
  • Fastest probe ever. ≈ 111 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
  • At 10% light speed. ≈ 711 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
  • Distance. 71.1 light-years from Earth.

Look-back time

  • Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 1955.

Saying hello

  • Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 142 years round-trip.

By the numbers

  • Size. About 12× the width of Earth.
  • Volume. About 1728 Earths could fit inside it.
  • Mass. Roughly 8264× Earth's mass — about 26 Jupiters.
  • Your weight. You'd weigh about 57.4× your Earth weight standing here.
  • Density. Denser than solid iron.
  • Temperature. Around 1397°C — hotter than a self-cleaning oven.

How we found it

  • Discovery. Found by European Space Agency (ESA) Gaia Satellite using the imaging method.

Properties

density gcc
26.3
discovery facility
European Space Agency (ESA) Gaia Satellite
discovery method
Imaging
dist ly
71.0733
eq temp k
1670
insolation
0
mass earth
8263.5386
name
G 196-3 b
radius earth
12
sys num planets
1

About G 196-3 b

G 196-3 b is an epic exoplanet. It lies about 71.1 light-years from Earth, has an equilibrium temperature near 1,670 K, spans roughly 12 Earth radii and weighs about 8,263.54 Earth masses.

Its surface is likely an ocean of molten rock.

How to see it

Like any astronomical target, G 196-3 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 G 196-3 b is an epic exoplanet

G 196-3 b scores 67 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the epic tier. Another 1 point would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 6 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Gas giant, Hot Jupiter, Lava world, Denser than iron and Directly imaged — 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.

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Sky imagery and survey data courtesy of Aladin Lite & CDS, Strasbourg. Object data from the NASA Exoplanet Archive, JPL Small-Body Database, and the ATNF Pulsar Catalogue.