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Rare exoplanet 35 EP

HD 62549 b

RA 116.0821° · Dec -5.0541° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 5 badges
35 pts · Rare
Rare 50 pts → Epic
  • Long-period world +10
  • Frozen world +8
  • Orbits a Sun-like star +8
  • Confirmed exoplanet +5
  • Gas giant +4
Total score 35

15 more points to reach Epic.

Badges

  • Confirmed exoplanet · +5
  • Gas giant · +4
  • Frozen world · +8
  • Long-period world · +10
  • Orbits a Sun-like star · +8

Trivia

What makes it special

  • Frozen world. A deep-frozen world, too far from its star's warmth for anything to stay liquid.

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 7.7 it is just past naked-eye reach — ordinary binoculars will pull it in.
  • Seen from everywhere. It sits almost on the celestial equator, so it can be seen from essentially anywhere on Earth.
  • Best time of year. It stands highest in the middle of the night around January — 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. ≈ 2.8 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).

Properties

density gcc
7.44
diameter km
160728.12
discovery facility
Multiple Observatories
discovery method
Radial Velocity
discovery year
2022
dist ly
160.8944
eccentricity
0.15
eq temp k
92.25
host star teff
5930.46
inclination
162.313
insolation
0.0121
mag
7.72
mass earth
2707.5802
name
HD 62549 b
orbital period days
14306.8852
radius earth
12.6
semi major au
11.842
sys num planets
1
sys num stars
1

About HD 62549 b

HD 62549 b is a rare exoplanet. It lies about 160.9 light-years from Earth, shines at apparent magnitude 7.72, has an equilibrium temperature near 92 K and spans roughly 12.6 Earth radii.

A deep-frozen world, too far from its star's warmth for anything to stay liquid.

How to see it

At apparent magnitude 7.72, it is an easy target for binoculars.

Like any astronomical target, HD 62549 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 HD 62549 b is a rare exoplanet

HD 62549 b scores 35 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the rare tier. Another 15 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 5 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Gas giant, Frozen world, Long-period world and Orbits a Sun-like star — 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.