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Epic exoplanet 61 EP

V2376 Ori b

RA 83.8398° · Dec -5.3516° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 6 badges
61 pts · Epic
Epic 68 pts → Anomaly
  • Directly imaged +16
  • Lava world +14
  • Puffy low-density world +12
  • Hot Jupiter +10
  • Confirmed exoplanet +5
  • Gas giant +4
Total score 61

7 more points to reach Anomaly.

Badges

  • Confirmed exoplanet · +5
  • Gas giant · +4
  • Hot Jupiter · +10
  • Lava world · +14
  • Puffy low-density world · +12
  • Directly imaged · +16

Trivia

What makes it special

  • Lava world. Its surface is likely an ocean of molten rock.
  • Cotton-candy planet. So low-density it would float on water.

By the numbers

  • Size. About 87.2× the width of Earth.
  • Volume. About 663.2 thousand Earths could fit inside it.
  • Mass. Roughly 6357× Earth's mass — about 20 Jupiters.
  • Your weight. You'd weigh about 0.8× your Earth weight standing here.
  • Density. Less dense than water — drop it in a big enough ocean and it would float.
  • Temperature. Around 2100 K — hot enough to vaporise iron.

How we found it

  • Discovery. Found by Multiple Observatories using the imaging method.

Properties

density gcc
0.0527
discovery facility
Multiple Observatories
discovery method
Imaging
eq temp k
2100
mass earth
6356.5681
name
V2376 Ori b
radius earth
87.2059
sys num planets
1

About V2376 Ori b

V2376 Ori b is an epic exoplanet. It has an equilibrium temperature near 2,100 K, spans roughly 87.21 Earth radii, weighs about 6,356.57 Earth masses and belongs to a system of 1 known planets.

Its surface is likely an ocean of molten rock.

How to see it

Like any astronomical target, V2376 Ori 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 V2376 Ori b is an epic exoplanet

V2376 Ori b scores 61 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the epic tier. Another 7 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 6 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Gas giant, Hot Jupiter, Lava world, Puffy low-density world and Directly imaged — 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.

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Sky imagery and survey data courtesy of Aladin Lite & CDS, Strasbourg. Object data from the NASA Exoplanet Archive, JPL Small-Body Database, and the ATNF Pulsar Catalogue.