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Rare exoplanet 38 EP

HD 7449 b

RA 18.6215° · Dec -5.0480° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 5 badges
38 pts · Rare
Rare 50 pts → Epic
  • Two suns in its sky +12
  • Eccentric orbit +9
  • Orbits a Sun-like star +8
  • Confirmed exoplanet +5
  • Gas giant +4
Total score 38

12 more points to reach Epic.

Badges

  • Confirmed exoplanet · +5
  • Gas giant · +4
  • Eccentric orbit · +9
  • Orbits a Sun-like star · +8
  • Two suns in its sky · +12

Trivia

What it actually is

  • What it is made of. Denser than Earth — a solid world of rock and iron, with no meaningful atmosphere to speak of by mass.

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.
  • 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 October — 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. ≈ 2.2 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
  • Fastest probe ever. ≈ 196.9 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.

Properties

density gcc
7.14
diameter km
160728.12
discovery facility
La Silla Observatory
discovery method
Radial Velocity
discovery year
2011
dist ly
126.0984
eccentricity
0.752
eq temp k
183.23
host star teff
6024
inclination
171.631
insolation
0.2125
mag
7.5
mass earth
2597.9294
multi star system
yes
name
HD 7449 b
orbital period days
1270.552
radius earth
12.6
semi major au
2.438
spect
F9.5 V
sys num planets
1
sys num stars
2

About HD 7449 b

HD 7449 b is a rare exoplanet. It lies about 126.1 light-years from Earth, shines at apparent magnitude 7.5, has spectral type F9.5 V and has an equilibrium temperature near 183 K.

Denser than Earth — a solid world of rock and iron, with no meaningful atmosphere to speak of by mass.

How to see it

At apparent magnitude 7.5, it is an easy target for binoculars.

Like any astronomical target, HD 7449 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 7449 b is a rare exoplanet

HD 7449 b scores 38 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the rare tier. Another 12 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 5 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Gas giant, Eccentric orbit, 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.