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Rare exoplanet 44 EP

HD 26161 b

RA 62.4122° · Dec 31.6524° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 6 badges
44 pts · Rare
Rare 50 pts → Epic
  • Long-period world +10
  • Eccentric orbit +9
  • Frozen world +8
  • Orbits a Sun-like star +8
  • Confirmed exoplanet +5
  • Gas giant +4
Total score 44

6 more points to reach Epic.

Badges

  • Confirmed exoplanet · +5
  • Gas giant · +4
  • Frozen world · +8
  • Long-period world · +10
  • Eccentric orbit · +9
  • Orbits a Sun-like star · +8

Trivia

What makes it special

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

Hard to believe

  • Denser than iron. It is packed tighter than solid iron — whatever it is made of, it is not ordinary rock.

What it actually is

  • What it is made of. Denser than Earth — a solid world of rock and iron, with no meaningful atmosphere to speak of by mass.

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 6.9 it is just past naked-eye reach — ordinary binoculars will pull it in.
  • Northern sky. It rides the northern half of the sky — an easier target the further north you are.
  • Best time of year. It stands highest in the middle of the night around November — that's when to go looking.

Could we get there?

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

Properties

density gcc
29.5
diameter km
151798.78
discovery facility
Multiple Observatories
discovery method
Radial Velocity
discovery year
2021
dist ly
133.4396
eccentricity
0.922
eq temp k
110.98
host star teff
6057.62
inclination
59.558
insolation
0.0243
mag
6.8933
mass earth
9045.3965
name
HD 26161 b
orbital period days
10942.2901
radius earth
11.9
semi major au
10.087
sys num planets
1
sys num stars
1

About HD 26161 b

HD 26161 b is a rare exoplanet. It lies about 133.4 light-years from Earth, shines at apparent magnitude 6.89, has an equilibrium temperature near 111 K and spans roughly 11.9 Earth radii.

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

How to see it

At apparent magnitude 6.89, it is an easy target for binoculars.

Like any astronomical target, HD 26161 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 26161 b is a rare exoplanet

HD 26161 b scores 44 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the rare tier. Another 6 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 6 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Gas giant, Frozen world, Long-period world, Eccentric orbit 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.