About NN Ser c
NN Ser c is a rare exoplanet. It lies about 1,682.4 light-years from Earth, spans roughly 12.6 Earth radii, weighs about 2,329.6 Earth masses and completes an orbit every 6,987 days.
One of at least 2 planets orbiting its star.
Rare exoplanet 35 EP
NN Ser c
RA 238.2337° · Dec 12.9121° · exoplanet
Score breakdown
· 5 badgesRare 46 pts → Epic
- Long-period world +10
- Distant (>1000 ly) +10
- Multi-planet system +6
- Confirmed exoplanet +5
- Gas giant +4
Total score 35
11 more points to reach Epic.
Badges
- Confirmed exoplanet · +5
- Gas giant · +4
- Long-period world · +10
- Multi-planet system · +6
- Distant (>1000 ly) · +10
Trivia
Could we get there?
- Verdict. Impossible with our current technology — and the next millennium of it.
Getting there
- Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 29.6 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
- Fastest probe ever. ≈ 2.6 million years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
- At 10% light speed. ≈ 16.8 thousand years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
- Distance. 1682 light-years from Earth.
Look-back time
- Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 344.
Saying hello
- Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 3365 years round-trip.
Standing on it
- A year here. A full year lasts about 19.1 Earth years.
By the numbers
- Size. About 12.6× the width of Earth.
- Volume. About 2000 Earths could fit inside it.
- Mass. Roughly 2330× Earth's mass — about 7.3 Jupiters.
- Your weight. You'd weigh about 14.7× your Earth weight standing here.
How we found it
- Discovery. Found by Multiple Observatories using the eclipse timing variations method.
Cosmic context
- Crowded system. One of at least 2 planets orbiting its star.
Properties
- density gcc
- 6.4
- discovery facility
- Multiple Observatories
- discovery method
- Eclipse Timing Variations
- dist ly
- 1682.3714
- eccentricity
- 0.089
- mass earth
- 2329.6
- name
- NN Ser c
- orbital period days
- 6987
- radius earth
- 12.6
- sys num planets
- 2
How to see it
Like any astronomical target, NN Ser c 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 NN Ser c is a rare exoplanet
NN Ser c scores 35 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the rare tier. Another 11 points would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 5 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Gas giant, Long-period world, Multi-planet system and Distant (>1000 ly) — 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.