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Trash exoplanet 13 EP

HD 175607 b

RA 285.2743° · Dec -66.1943° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 2 badges
13 pts · Trash
Trash 15 pts → Common
  • Orbits a Sun-like star +8
  • Confirmed exoplanet +5
Total score 13

2 more points to reach Common.

Badges

  • Confirmed exoplanet · +5
  • Orbits a Sun-like star · +8

Trivia

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. 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 8.6 it is just past naked-eye reach — ordinary binoculars will pull it in.
  • Southern sky only. So far south it never rises for most of the northern hemisphere. To see it you'd have to travel to Chile, South Africa or Australia.
  • 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.

Getting there

  • Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 2.3 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
  • Fastest probe ever. ≈ 205.4 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.

Properties

discovery facility
La Silla Observatory
discovery method
Radial Velocity
discovery year
2015
dist ly
131.5397
eccentricity
0.11
host star teff
5392
inclination
0.1865
mag
8.6
mass earth
2456.1779
name
HD 175607 b
orbital period days
29.01
spect
G6 V
sys num planets
1
sys num stars
1

About HD 175607 b

HD 175607 b is a trash exoplanet. It lies about 131.5 light-years from Earth, shines at apparent magnitude 8.6, has spectral type G6 V and weighs about 2,456.18 Earth masses.

It orbits closer to its star than Mercury does to the Sun, completing a lap in less time than Mercury takes.

How to see it

At apparent magnitude 8.6, it is an easy target for binoculars.

Like any astronomical target, HD 175607 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 HD 175607 b is a trash exoplanet

HD 175607 b scores 13 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the trash tier. Another 2 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 2 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet and Orbits a Sun-like star — 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.