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Uncommon exoplanet 27 EP

HD 60532 c

RA 113.5131° · Dec -22.2959° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 4 badges
27 pts · Uncommon
Uncommon 34 pts → Rare
  • Its star is visible to the naked eye +12
  • Multi-planet system +6
  • Confirmed exoplanet +5
  • Gas giant +4
Total score 27

7 more points to reach Rare.

Badges

  • Confirmed exoplanet · +5
  • Gas giant · +4
  • Multi-planet system · +6
  • Its star is visible to the naked eye · +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.
  • Crowded system. One of at least 2 planets orbiting its star.

Sense of scale

  • In perspective. Inside our stellar backyard: every radio broadcast humanity has ever made has already swept past it.

Find it in the sky

  • How to spot it. At magnitude 4.4 you can see it with your own eyes from a dark site.
  • 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 January — 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. ≈ 1.5 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).

Properties

density gcc
1.86
diameter km
169657.46
discovery facility
La Silla Observatory
discovery method
Radial Velocity
discovery year
2008
dist ly
84.7079
eccentricity
0.03
eq temp k
381.66
host star teff
6245
insolation
3.9142
mag
4.44
mass earth
797.7533
name
HD 60532 c
orbital period days
600.1
radius earth
13.3
semi major au
1.6
spect
F6 IV
sys num planets
2
sys num stars
1

About HD 60532 c

HD 60532 c is an uncommon exoplanet. It lies about 84.7 light-years from Earth, shines at apparent magnitude 4.44, has spectral type F6 IV and has an equilibrium temperature near 382 K.

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 4.44, it can be glimpsed with the unaided eye under dark skies.

Like any astronomical target, HD 60532 c 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 60532 c is an uncommon exoplanet

HD 60532 c scores 27 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the uncommon tier. Another 7 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 4 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Gas giant, Multi-planet system and Its star is visible to the naked eye — 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.