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Uncommon exoplanet 25 EP

HATS-49 b

RA 6.6136° · Dec -56.3443° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 4 badges
25 pts · Uncommon
Uncommon 34 pts → Rare
  • Tidally locked +10
  • Distant (over 1,000 light-years) +6
  • Confirmed exoplanet +5
  • Gas giant +4
Total score 25

9 more points to reach Rare.

Badges

  • Confirmed exoplanet · +5
  • Distant (over 1,000 light-years) · +6
  • Gas giant · +4
  • Tidally locked · +10

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 15 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 September — that's when to go looking.

Could we get there?

  • Verdict. Impossible with our current technology — and the next millennium of it.

Properties

density gcc
0.986
diameter km
109382.948
discovery facility
HATSouth
discovery method
Transit
discovery year
2020
dist ly
1058.0925
eccentricity
0.071
eq temp k
834.8
host star teff
4405
inclination
88.27
insolation
80.45
mag
14.988
mass earth
112.194
name
HATS-49 b
orbital period days
4.148
radius earth
8.5749
semi major au
0.0452
sys num planets
1
sys num stars
1
tidally locked
yes
tidally locked inferred
yes

About HATS-49 b

HATS-49 b is an uncommon exoplanet. It lies about 1,058.1 light-years from Earth, shines at apparent magnitude 14.99, has an equilibrium temperature near 835 K and spans roughly 8.57 Earth radii.

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

Like any astronomical target, HATS-49 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 HATS-49 b is an uncommon exoplanet

HATS-49 b scores 25 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the uncommon tier. Another 9 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 4 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Distant (over 1,000 light-years), Gas giant and Tidally locked — 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.