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Epic exoplanet 53 EP

WASP-160 B b

RA 87.6796° · Dec -27.6233° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 6 badges
53 pts · Epic
Epic 78 pts → Anomaly
  • Puffy low-density world +12
  • Two suns in its sky +12
  • Hot Jupiter +10
  • Tidally locked +10
  • Confirmed exoplanet +5
  • Gas giant +4
Total score 53

25 more points to reach Anomaly.

Badges

  • Confirmed exoplanet · +5
  • Gas giant · +4
  • Hot Jupiter · +10
  • Tidally locked · +10
  • Puffy low-density world · +12
  • Two suns in its sky · +12

Trivia

Hard to believe

  • It would float. It is less dense than water. Drop it in a big enough ocean and the whole world would bob on the surface.

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.
  • What it is made of. Lighter than Neptune — a puffed-up ball of hydrogen and helium with no surface anywhere on it to stand on.

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 13 it is far too faint for the eye: this one belongs to cameras and long exposures.
  • 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 December — that's when to go looking.

Could we get there?

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

Properties

density gcc
0.284
diameter km
155852.8279
discovery facility
SuperWASP-South
discovery method
Transit
discovery year
2018
dist ly
940.3925
eccentricity
0
eq temp k
1119
host star teff
5298
inclination
88.97
insolation
210.575
mag
13.04
mass earth
88.3567
multi star system
yes
name
WASP-160 B b
orbital period days
3.7685
radius earth
12.2178
semi major au
0.0452
spect
K0 V
sys num planets
1
sys num stars
2
tidally locked
yes
tidally locked inferred
yes

About WASP-160 B b

WASP-160 B b is an epic exoplanet. It lies about 940.4 light-years from Earth, shines at apparent magnitude 13.04, has spectral type K0 V and has an equilibrium temperature near 1,119 K.

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 13.04, it takes a larger telescope or a long-exposure image to capture.

Like any astronomical target, WASP-160 B 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 WASP-160 B b is an epic exoplanet

WASP-160 B b 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 6 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Gas giant, Hot Jupiter, Tidally locked, Puffy low-density world and Two suns in its sky — 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.