Epic exoplanet 57 EP

WISPIT 1 b

RA 117.7986° · Dec -50.1377° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 6 badges

57 pts · Epic

Epic 68 pts → Anomaly

Denser than iron +18
Directly imaged +16
Frozen world +8
Multi-planet system +6
Confirmed exoplanet +5
Gas giant +4

Total score 57

11 more points to reach Anomaly.

Badges

Confirmed exoplanet · +5
Gas giant · +4
Frozen world · +8
Denser than iron · +18
Multi-planet system · +6
Directly imaged · +16

Trivia

What makes it special

Frozen world. A deep-frozen world far from its star's warmth.
Heavyweight. Packed denser than solid iron.

Could we get there?

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

Getting there

Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 13.2 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
Fastest probe ever. ≈ 1.2 million years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
At 10% light speed. ≈ 7502 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
Distance. 750 light-years from Earth.

Look-back time

Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 1276.

Saying hello

Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 1500 years round-trip.

By the numbers

Size. About 12.4× the width of Earth.
Volume. About 1907 Earths could fit inside it.
Mass. Roughly 3305× Earth's mass — about 10.4 Jupiters.
Your weight. You'd weigh about 21.5× your Earth weight standing here.
Density. Denser than solid iron.
Temperature. A frigid -260°C — colder than dry ice.

How we found it

Discovery. Found by Paranal Observatory using the imaging method.

Cosmic context

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

Properties

density gcc: 9.53
discovery facility: Paranal Observatory
discovery method: Imaging
dist ly: 750.1816
eq temp k: 12.94
insolation: 0
mass earth: 3305.4154
name: WISPIT 1 b
radius earth: 12.4
sys num planets: 2

About WISPIT 1 b

WISPIT 1 b is an epic exoplanet. It lies about 750.2 light-years from Earth, has an equilibrium temperature near 13 K, spans roughly 12.4 Earth radii and weighs about 3,305.42 Earth masses.

A deep-frozen world far from its star's warmth.

How to see it

Like any astronomical target, WISPIT 1 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 WISPIT 1 b is an epic exoplanet

WISPIT 1 b scores 57 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the epic tier. Another 11 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 6 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Gas giant, Frozen world, Denser than iron, Multi-planet system and Directly imaged — 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.