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Trash exoplanet 14 EP

TOI-5486 b

RA 190.5495° · Dec 3.7886° · 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. Lighter than Neptune — a puffed-up ball of hydrogen and helium with no surface anywhere on it to stand on.

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 14.3 it is far too faint for the eye: this one belongs to cameras and long exposures.
  • 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 April — 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. ≈ 5.1 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).

Properties

density gcc
1.31
diameter km
50619.7815
discovery facility
Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)
discovery method
Transit
discovery year
2026
dist ly
292.5003
eq temp k
752
host star teff
3750.17
inclination
85.2079
insolation
53.3297
mag
14.297
mass earth
14.9
name
TOI-5486 b
orbital period days
2.0247
radius earth
3.9682
sys num planets
1
sys num stars
1

About TOI-5486 b

TOI-5486 b is a trash exoplanet. It lies about 292.5 light-years from Earth, shines at apparent magnitude 14.3, has an equilibrium temperature near 752 K and spans roughly 3.97 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 14.3, it takes a larger telescope or a long-exposure image to capture.

Like any astronomical target, TOI-5486 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-5486 b is a trash exoplanet

TOI-5486 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.