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Uncommon exoplanet 24 EP

BD+37 3172 b

RA 278.8155° · Dec 38.1154° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 4 badges
24 pts · Uncommon
Uncommon 34 pts → Rare
  • Eccentric orbit +9
  • Distant (over 1,000 light-years) +6
  • Confirmed exoplanet +5
  • Gas giant +4
Total score 24

10 more points to reach Rare.

Badges

  • Confirmed exoplanet · +5
  • Distant (over 1,000 light-years) · +6
  • Gas giant · +4
  • Eccentric orbit · +9

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

  • 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 9.2 you'll want a small backyard telescope.
  • 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 June — 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. ≈ 26 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).

Properties

density gcc
9.71
diameter km
158176.88
discovery facility
McDonald Observatory
discovery method
Radial Velocity
discovery year
2023
dist ly
1481.5669
eccentricity
0.59
eq temp k
713.25
host star teff
4500
insolation
31.9959
mag
9.162
mass earth
3368.9811
name
BD+37 3172 b
orbital period days
1887.76
radius earth
12.4
semi major au
4.65
sys num planets
1
sys num stars
1

About BD+37 3172 b

BD+37 3172 b is an uncommon exoplanet. It lies about 1,481.6 light-years from Earth, shines at apparent magnitude 9.16, has an equilibrium temperature near 713 K and spans roughly 12.4 Earth radii.

Denser than Earth — a solid world of rock and iron, with no meaningful atmosphere to speak of by mass.

How to see it

At apparent magnitude 9.16, a small backyard telescope will bring it into view.

Like any astronomical target, BD+37 3172 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 BD+37 3172 b is an uncommon exoplanet

BD+37 3172 b scores 24 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the uncommon tier. Another 10 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 4 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Distant (over 1,000 light-years), Gas giant and Eccentric orbit — 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.