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Trash exoplanet 13 EP

TOI-4641 b

RA 42.5582° · Dec 25.3335° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 3 badges
13 pts · Trash
Trash 15 pts → Common
  • Confirmed exoplanet +5
  • Gas giant +4
  • Found by TESS +4
Total score 13

2 more points to reach Common.

Badges

  • Confirmed exoplanet · +5
  • Gas giant · +4
  • Found by TESS · +4

Trivia

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.

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 7.5 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.

Getting there

  • Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 4.9 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
  • Fastest probe ever. ≈ 439.8 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.

Properties

diameter km
104378.3197
discovery facility
Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)
discovery method
Transit
discovery year
2023
dist ly
281.636
eccentricity
0.074
eq temp k
950.11
host star teff
6560
inclination
87.9
insolation
192.5802
mag
7.51
mass earth
1229.9959
name
TOI-4641 b
orbital period days
22.0934
radius earth
8.1826
semi major au
0.173
sys num planets
1
sys num stars
1

About TOI-4641 b

TOI-4641 b is a trash exoplanet. It lies about 281.6 light-years from Earth, shines at apparent magnitude 7.51, has an equilibrium temperature near 950 K and spans roughly 8.18 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 7.51, it is an easy target for binoculars.

Like any astronomical target, TOI-4641 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 TOI-4641 b is a trash exoplanet

TOI-4641 b scores 13 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the trash tier. Another 2 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 3 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Gas giant and Found by TESS — 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.