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TIC 270471727 b

RA 97.2114° · Dec -78.4731° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 3 badges
14 pts · Trash
Trash 15 pts → Common
  • Confirmed exoplanet +5
  • Sub-Neptune +5
  • Found by TESS +4
Total score 14

1 more point to reach Common.

Badges

  • Confirmed exoplanet · +5
  • Sub-Neptune · +5
  • 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. 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.

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 11.9 you'll want a small backyard telescope.
  • Southern sky only. So far south it never rises for most of the northern hemisphere. To see it you'd have to travel to Chile, South Africa or Australia.
  • Best time of year. It stands highest in the middle of the night around December — 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. ≈ 10.4 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).

Properties

density gcc
2.11
diameter km
35083.3206
discovery facility
Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)
discovery method
Transit
discovery year
2026
dist ly
593.9431
eq temp k
1147.1
host star teff
5271.39
inclination
88.8109
insolation
283.9789
mag
11.948
mass earth
8
name
TIC 270471727 b
orbital period days
10.4562
radius earth
2.7503
sys num planets
1
sys num stars
1

About TIC 270471727 b

TIC 270471727 b is a trash exoplanet. It lies about 593.9 light-years from Earth, shines at apparent magnitude 11.95, has an equilibrium temperature near 1,147 K and spans roughly 2.75 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 11.95, a small backyard telescope will bring it into view.

Like any astronomical target, TIC 270471727 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 TIC 270471727 b is a trash exoplanet

TIC 270471727 b scores 14 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the trash tier. Another 1 point would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 3 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Sub-Neptune 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.