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Uncommon exoplanet 23 EP

TOI-6330 b

RA 22.1680° · Dec 53.6861° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 4 badges
23 pts · Uncommon
Uncommon 34 pts → Rare
  • Tidally locked +10
  • Confirmed exoplanet +5
  • Gas giant +4
  • Found by TESS +4
Total score 23

11 more points to reach Rare.

Badges

  • Confirmed exoplanet · +5
  • Gas giant · +4
  • Tidally locked · +10
  • Found by TESS · +4

Trivia

Hard to believe

  • Denser than iron. It is packed tighter than solid iron — whatever it is made of, it is not ordinary rock.

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 16.3 it is far too faint for the eye: this one belongs to cameras and long exposures.
  • 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 October — that's when to go looking.

Could we get there?

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

Properties

density gcc
13.57
diameter km
138915.018
discovery facility
Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)
discovery method
Transit
discovery year
2025
dist ly
453.4938
eccentricity
0.34
eq temp k
495
host star teff
3539
inclination
88.41
insolation
9.97
mag
16.33
mass earth
3179
name
TOI-6330 b
orbital period days
6.85
radius earth
10.89
semi major au
0.0576
sys num planets
1
sys num stars
1
tidally locked
yes
tidally locked inferred
yes

About TOI-6330 b

TOI-6330 b is an uncommon exoplanet. It lies about 453.5 light-years from Earth, shines at apparent magnitude 16.33, has an equilibrium temperature near 495 K and spans roughly 10.89 Earth radii.

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 16.33, it takes a larger telescope or a long-exposure image to capture.

Like any astronomical target, TOI-6330 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-6330 b is an uncommon exoplanet

TOI-6330 b scores 23 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the uncommon tier. Another 11 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 4 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Gas giant, 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.