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Rare exoplanet 35 EP

HD 107148 b

RA 184.8060° · Dec -3.3200° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 5 badges
35 pts · Rare
Rare 50 pts → Epic
  • Two suns in its sky +12
  • Orbits a Sun-like star +8
  • Multi-planet system +6
  • Confirmed exoplanet +5
  • Gas giant +4
Total score 35

15 more points to reach Epic.

Badges

  • Confirmed exoplanet · +5
  • Gas giant · +4
  • Multi-planet system · +6
  • Orbits a Sun-like star · +8
  • Two suns in its sky · +12

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.
  • Crowded system. One of at least 2 planets orbiting its star.

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 it is just past naked-eye reach — ordinary binoculars will pull it in.
  • Seen from everywhere. It sits almost on the celestial equator, so it can be seen from essentially anywhere on Earth.
  • Best time of year. It stands highest in the middle of the night around March — that's when to go looking.

Properties

density gcc
0.415
diameter km
122459.52
discovery facility
W. M. Keck Observatory
discovery method
Radial Velocity
discovery year
2005
dist ly
161.1719
eccentricity
0.05
eq temp k
582.78
host star teff
5797
insolation
18.2517
mag
8.01
mass earth
66.741
multi star system
yes
name
HD 107148 b
orbital period days
48.056
radius earth
9.6
semi major au
0.269
spect
G5 V
sys num planets
2
sys num stars
2

Nearby objects

About HD 107148 b

HD 107148 b is a rare exoplanet. It lies about 161.2 light-years from Earth, shines at apparent magnitude 8.01, has spectral type G5 V and has an equilibrium temperature near 583 K.

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 8.01, it is an easy target for binoculars.

Like any astronomical target, HD 107148 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 107148 b is a rare exoplanet

HD 107148 b scores 35 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the rare tier. Another 15 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 5 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Gas giant, Multi-planet system, Orbits a Sun-like star and Two suns in its sky — 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.