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Rare exoplanet 41 EP

TOI-4551 b

RA 184.9788° · Dec -25.8279° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 6 badges
41 pts · Rare
Rare 50 pts → Epic
  • Lava world +14
  • Tidally locked +10
  • Confirmed exoplanet +5
  • Gas giant +4
  • Blasted by starlight +4
  • Found by TESS +4
Total score 41

9 more points to reach Epic.

Badges

  • Confirmed exoplanet · +5
  • Gas giant · +4
  • Lava world · +14
  • Tidally locked · +10
  • Blasted by starlight · +4
  • Found by TESS · +4

Trivia

What makes it special

  • Lava world. Its surface is almost certainly an ocean of molten rock, kept liquid by the star it hugs.

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. 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.

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 10 you'll want a small backyard telescope.
  • 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 March — that's when to go looking.

Could we get there?

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

Properties

density gcc
1.74
diameter km
151277.0716
discovery facility
Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)
discovery method
Transit
discovery year
2023
dist ly
704.4513
eccentricity
0.101
eq temp k
1655
host star teff
4896
inclination
86.9
insolation
1247.74
mag
9.973
mass earth
473.5643
name
TOI-4551 b
orbital period days
9.9558
radius earth
11.8591
semi major au
0.0994
sys num planets
1
sys num stars
1
tidally locked
yes
tidally locked inferred
yes

About TOI-4551 b

TOI-4551 b is a rare exoplanet. It lies about 704.5 light-years from Earth, shines at apparent magnitude 9.97, has an equilibrium temperature near 1,655 K and spans roughly 11.86 Earth radii.

Its surface is almost certainly an ocean of molten rock, kept liquid by the star it hugs.

How to see it

At apparent magnitude 9.97, a small backyard telescope will bring it into view.

Like any astronomical target, TOI-4551 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-4551 b is a rare exoplanet

TOI-4551 b scores 41 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the rare tier. Another 9 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 6 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Gas giant, Lava world, Tidally locked, Blasted by starlight 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.