About alf Tau b
alf Tau b is a common exoplanet. It lies about 66.6 light-years from Earth, has an equilibrium temperature near 1,087 K, spans roughly 12.7 Earth radii and weighs about 2,056.36 Earth masses.
About 12.7× the width of Earth.
Common exoplanet 19 EP
alf Tau b
RA 68.9802° · Dec 16.5092° · exoplanet
Score breakdown
· 3 badgesCommon 24 pts → Uncommon
- Hot Jupiter +10
- Confirmed exoplanet +5
- Gas giant +4
Total score 19
5 more points to reach Uncommon.
Badges
- Confirmed exoplanet · +5
- Gas giant · +4
- Hot Jupiter · +10
Trivia
Could we get there?
- Verdict. Hopelessly far for any craft humanity can build today.
Getting there
- Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 1.2 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
- Fastest probe ever. ≈ 104.1 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
- At 10% light speed. ≈ 666 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
- Distance. 66.6 light-years from Earth.
Look-back time
- Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 1959.
Saying hello
- Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 133 years round-trip.
Standing on it
- A year here. A full year lasts just 629 Earth days.
By the numbers
- Size. About 12.7× the width of Earth.
- Volume. About 2048 Earths could fit inside it.
- Mass. Roughly 2056× Earth's mass — about 6.5 Jupiters.
- Your weight. You'd weigh about 12.7× your Earth weight standing here.
- Temperature. Around 814°C — hotter than a self-cleaning oven.
How we found it
- Discovery. Found by Multiple Observatories using the radial velocity method.
Properties
- density gcc
- 5.52
- discovery facility
- Multiple Observatories
- discovery method
- Radial Velocity
- dist ly
- 66.6441
- eccentricity
- 0.1
- eq temp k
- 1086.77
- insolation
- 220.442
- mass earth
- 2056.3601
- name
- alf Tau b
- orbital period days
- 628.96
- radius earth
- 12.7
- sys num planets
- 1
How to see it
Like any astronomical target, alf Tau 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 alf Tau b is a common exoplanet
alf Tau b scores 19 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the common tier. Another 5 points would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 3 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Gas giant and Hot Jupiter — 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.