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Epic exoplanet 53 EP

Wolf 1061 d

RA 247.5748° · Dec -12.6677° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 7 badges
53 pts · Epic
Epic 78 pts → Anomaly
  • Nearby (<25 ly) +12
  • Eccentric orbit +9
  • Frozen world +8
  • Orbits a red dwarf +8
  • Multi-planet system +6
  • Confirmed exoplanet +5
  • Sub-Neptune +5
Total score 53

25 more points to reach Anomaly.

Badges

  • Confirmed exoplanet · +5
  • Nearby (<25 ly) · +12
  • Sub-Neptune · +5
  • Frozen world · +8
  • Eccentric orbit · +9
  • Multi-planet system · +6
  • Orbits a red dwarf · +8

Trivia

What makes it special

  • Frozen world. A deep-frozen world, too far from its star's warmth for anything to stay liquid.

What it actually is

  • What it is made of. Too light to be solid rock and too heavy to be all gas: most likely a deep global ocean or a thick steamy envelope over a rocky core.
  • Crowded system. One of at least 3 planets orbiting its star.

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 10.1 you'll want a small backyard telescope.
  • 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
2.17
diameter km
34314.178
discovery facility
La Silla Observatory
discovery method
Radial Velocity
discovery year
2015
dist ly
14.044
eccentricity
0.55
eq temp k
130.24
host star teff
3342
insolation
0.06
mag
10.1
mass earth
7.7
name
Wolf 1061 d
orbital period days
217.21
radius earth
2.69
semi major au
0.47
spect
M3.5
sys num planets
3
sys num stars
1

About Wolf 1061 d

Wolf 1061 d is an epic exoplanet. It lies about 14 light-years from Earth, shines at apparent magnitude 10.1, has spectral type M3.5 and has an equilibrium temperature near 130 K.

A deep-frozen world, too far from its star's warmth for anything to stay liquid.

How to see it

At apparent magnitude 10.1, a small backyard telescope will bring it into view.

Like any astronomical target, Wolf 1061 d 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 Wolf 1061 d is an epic exoplanet

Wolf 1061 d scores 53 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the epic tier. Another 25 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 7 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Nearby (<25 ly), Sub-Neptune, Frozen world, Eccentric orbit, Multi-planet system 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.