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Epic exoplanet 77 EP

HIP 77900 b

RA 238.6254° · Dec -27.3387° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 6 badges
77 pts · Epic
Epic 78 pts → Anomaly
  • Ultra-hot Jupiter +26
  • Directly imaged +16
  • Orbits a hot blue-white star +14
  • Orbits beyond Neptune's distance +12
  • Confirmed exoplanet +5
  • Gas giant +4
Total score 77

1 more point to reach Anomaly.

Badges

  • Confirmed exoplanet · +5
  • Gas giant · +4
  • Ultra-hot Jupiter · +26
  • Directly imaged · +16
  • Orbits a hot blue-white star · +14
  • Orbits beyond Neptune's distance · +12

Trivia

What makes it special

  • Ultra-hot Jupiter. So hot that iron vaporises on the dayside, blows around to the night side and rains back down as molten metal.

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 6.2 it is just past naked-eye reach — ordinary binoculars will pull it in.
  • Southern sky. It rides the southern half of the sky — an easier target the further south you are.
  • Best time of year. It stands highest in the middle of the night around May — that's when to go looking.

Could we get there?

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

Properties

density gcc
20.7
diameter km
154350.02
discovery facility
European Space Agency (ESA) Gaia Satellite
discovery method
Imaging
discovery year
2024
dist ly
492.0455
eq temp k
2507
host star teff
13646
mag
6.15
mass earth
6674.3965
name
HIP 77900 b
radius earth
12.1
semi major au
3319
sys num planets
1
sys num stars
1

About HIP 77900 b

HIP 77900 b is an epic exoplanet. It lies about 492 light-years from Earth, shines at apparent magnitude 6.15, has an equilibrium temperature near 2,507 K and spans roughly 12.1 Earth radii.

So hot that iron vaporises on the dayside, blows around to the night side and rains back down as molten metal.

How to see it

At apparent magnitude 6.15, it is an easy target for binoculars.

Like any astronomical target, HIP 77900 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 HIP 77900 b is an epic exoplanet

HIP 77900 b scores 77 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the epic tier. Another 1 point would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 6 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Gas giant, Ultra-hot Jupiter, Directly imaged, Orbits a hot blue-white star and Orbits beyond Neptune's distance — 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.