Rare exoplanet 39 EP

HD 197037 b

RA 309.8870° · Dec 42.2476° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 3 badges

39 pts · Rare

Rare 46 pts → Epic

In the habitable zone +30
Confirmed exoplanet +5
Gas giant +4

Total score 39

7 more points to reach Epic.

Badges

Confirmed exoplanet · +5
In the habitable zone · +30
Gas giant · +4

Trivia

What makes it special

Goldilocks zone. Sits where it's neither too hot nor too cold — liquid water could exist.

Could we get there?

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

Getting there

Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 1.9 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
Fastest probe ever. ≈ 169 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
At 10% light speed. ≈ 1083 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
Distance. 108 light-years from Earth.

Look-back time

Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 1918.

Saying hello

Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 217 years round-trip.

Standing on it

A year here. A full year lasts about 2.8 Earth years.

By the numbers

Size. About 13.9× the width of Earth.
Volume. About 2686 Earths could fit inside it.
Mass. Roughly 251× Earth's mass — about 0.8 Jupiters.
Your weight. You'd weigh about 1.3× your Earth weight standing here.
Density. Less dense than water — drop it in a big enough ocean and it would float.
Temperature. A frigid -56°C — colder than dry ice.

How we found it

Discovery. Found by McDonald Observatory using the radial velocity method.

Properties

density gcc: 0.514
discovery facility: McDonald Observatory
discovery method: Radial Velocity
dist ly: 108.2655
eccentricity: 0.22
eq temp k: 216.67
habitable zone: yes
insolation: 0.4042
mass earth: 251
name: HD 197037 b
orbital period days: 1035.7
radius earth: 13.9
sys num planets: 1

About HD 197037 b

HD 197037 b is a rare exoplanet. It lies about 108.3 light-years from Earth, has an equilibrium temperature near 217 K, spans roughly 13.9 Earth radii and weighs about 251 Earth masses.

Sits where it's neither too hot nor too cold — liquid water could exist.

How to see it

Like any astronomical target, HD 197037 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 197037 b is a rare exoplanet

HD 197037 b scores 39 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the rare tier. Another 7 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 3 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, In the habitable zone and Gas giant — 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.