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Rare exoplanet 47 EP

TOI-6008 b

RA 310.4487° · Dec 49.6469° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 5 badges
47 pts · Rare
Rare 50 pts → Epic
  • Earth-sized +16
  • Ultra-short period +14
  • Orbits a red dwarf +8
  • Confirmed exoplanet +5
  • Found by TESS +4
Total score 47

3 more points to reach Epic.

Badges

  • Confirmed exoplanet · +5
  • Earth-sized · +16
  • Ultra-short period · +14
  • Found by TESS · +4
  • Orbits a red dwarf · +8

Trivia

What makes it special

  • Earth-sized. Genuinely comparable to Earth in size. Worlds in this narrow band are the ones every next-generation telescope is being pointed at.

Hard to believe

  • A year in a day. Its entire year is over in 20.6 hours. Birthdays here would come round faster than meals.

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.

Sense of scale

  • In perspective. Inside our stellar backyard: every radio broadcast humanity has ever made has already swept past it.

Find it in the sky

  • How to spot it. At magnitude 16 it is far too faint for the eye: this one belongs to cameras and long exposures.
  • Northern sky. It rides the northern half of the sky — an easier target the further north you are.
  • Best time of year. It stands highest in the middle of the night around July — that's when to go looking.

Could we get there?

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

Properties

diameter km
13138.886
discovery facility
Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)
discovery method
Transit
discovery year
2024
dist ly
75.3446
eq temp k
707
host star teff
3075
inclination
87.2
insolation
41.5
mag
15.97
mass earth
4
name
TOI-6008 b
orbital period days
0.8574
radius earth
1.03
semi major au
0.0108
spect
M5.0
sys num planets
1
sys num stars
1
tidally locked
yes
tidally locked inferred
yes

About TOI-6008 b

TOI-6008 b is a rare exoplanet. It lies about 75.3 light-years from Earth, shines at apparent magnitude 15.97, has spectral type M5.0 and has an equilibrium temperature near 707 K.

Genuinely comparable to Earth in size. Worlds in this narrow band are the ones every next-generation telescope is being pointed at.

How to see it

At apparent magnitude 15.97, it takes a larger telescope or a long-exposure image to capture.

Like any astronomical target, TOI-6008 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-6008 b is a rare exoplanet

TOI-6008 b scores 47 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the rare tier. Another 3 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 5 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Earth-sized, Ultra-short period, Found by TESS and Orbits a red dwarf — 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.