Rare exoplanet 34 EP

TOI-6716 b

RA 111.6571° · Dec -30.5522° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 4 badges

34 pts · Rare

Rare 46 pts → Epic

Earth-sized +16
Eccentric orbit +9
Confirmed exoplanet +5
Found by TESS +4

Total score 34

12 more points to reach Epic.

Badges

Confirmed exoplanet · +5
Earth-sized · +16
Eccentric orbit · +9
Found by TESS · +4

Trivia

Could we get there?

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

Getting there

Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 1.1 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
Fastest probe ever. ≈ 96.2 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
At 10% light speed. ≈ 616 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
Distance. 61.6 light-years from Earth.

Look-back time

Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 1964.

Saying hello

Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 123 years round-trip.

Standing on it

A year here. A full year lasts just 4.7 Earth days.

By the numbers

Size. Almost exactly Earth-sized.
Mass. About 0.9× the mass of Earth.
Your weight. You'd weigh about 0.9× your Earth weight standing here.
Temperature. A scorching 96°C on average.

How we found it

Discovery. Found by Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) using the transit method.

Cosmic context

Wild orbit. Its highly elliptical path swings between scorching and frozen each lap.

Properties

density gcc: 5.29
discovery facility: Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)
discovery method: Transit
dist ly: 61.6021
eccentricity: 0.88
eq temp k: 369
insolation: 4.4
mass earth: 0.911
name: TOI-6716 b
orbital period days: 4.7186
radius earth: 0.982
sys num planets: 1

About TOI-6716 b

TOI-6716 b is a rare exoplanet. It lies about 61.6 light-years from Earth, has an equilibrium temperature near 369 K, spans roughly 0.98 Earth radii and weighs about 0.91 Earth masses.

Its highly elliptical path swings between scorching and frozen each lap.

How to see it

Like any astronomical target, TOI-6716 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-6716 b is a rare exoplanet

TOI-6716 b scores 34 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the rare tier. Another 12 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 4 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Earth-sized, Eccentric orbit 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.