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Epic exoplanet 71 EP

HD 143811 AB b

RA 240.8892° · Dec -30.1372° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 7 badges
71 pts · Epic
Epic 78 pts → Anomaly
  • Directly imaged +16
  • Circumbinary (orbits both stars) +14
  • Orbits beyond Neptune's distance +12
  • Hot Jupiter +10
  • Long-period world +10
  • Confirmed exoplanet +5
  • Gas giant +4
Total score 71

7 more points to reach Anomaly.

Badges

  • Confirmed exoplanet · +5
  • Gas giant · +4
  • Hot Jupiter · +10
  • Long-period world · +10
  • Circumbinary (orbits both stars) · +14
  • Directly imaged · +16
  • Orbits beyond Neptune's distance · +12

Trivia

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.

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 8.9 it is just past naked-eye reach — ordinary binoculars will pull it in.
  • 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.

Getting there

  • Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 7.8 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
  • Fastest probe ever. ≈ 695.7 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.

Properties

circumbinary
yes
density gcc
2.76
diameter km
200177.5994
discovery facility
Paranal Observatory
discovery method
Imaging
discovery year
2025
dist ly
445.5552
eccentricity
0.19
eq temp k
1042
host star teff
6791
inclination
37
insolation
0.0011
mag
8.91
mass earth
1938.7533
name
HD 143811 AB b
orbital period days
117000
radius earth
15.6926
semi major au
63
sys num planets
1
sys num stars
2

About HD 143811 AB b

HD 143811 AB b is an epic exoplanet. It lies about 445.6 light-years from Earth, shines at apparent magnitude 8.91, has an equilibrium temperature near 1,042 K and spans roughly 15.69 Earth radii.

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.

How to see it

At apparent magnitude 8.91, it is an easy target for binoculars.

Like any astronomical target, HD 143811 AB 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 143811 AB b is an epic exoplanet

HD 143811 AB b scores 71 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 7 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Gas giant, Hot Jupiter, Long-period world, Circumbinary (orbits both stars), Directly imaged and Orbits beyond Neptune's distance — 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.