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Kepler-1468 c

RA 293.5198° · Dec 41.2774° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 9 badges
72 pts · Epic
Epic 78 pts → Anomaly
  • Earth-sized +16
  • Lava world +14
  • Tidally locked +10
  • Orbits a Sun-like star +8
  • Distant (over 1,000 light-years) +6
  • Multi-planet system +6
  • Confirmed exoplanet +5
  • Blasted by starlight +4
  • Found by Kepler +3
Total score 72

6 more points to reach Anomaly.

Badges

  • Confirmed exoplanet · +5
  • Distant (over 1,000 light-years) · +6
  • Earth-sized · +16
  • Lava world · +14
  • Tidally locked · +10
  • Multi-planet system · +6
  • Blasted by starlight · +4
  • Found by Kepler · +3
  • Orbits a Sun-like star · +8

Trivia

What makes it special

  • Earth-sized. Genuinely comparable to Earth in size. Worlds in this narrow band are the ones every next-generation telescope is being pointed at.
  • 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. Denser than Earth — a solid world of rock and iron, with no meaningful atmosphere to speak of by mass.
  • Crowded system. One of at least 3 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 15.1 it is far too faint for the eye: this one belongs to cameras and long exposures.
  • Northern sky. It rides the northern half of the sky — an easier target the further north you are.

Properties

density gcc
5.78
diameter km
14669.63
discovery facility
Kepler
discovery method
Transit
discovery year
2016
dist ly
6194.4852
eccentricity
0
eq temp k
1448
host star teff
5893
inclination
88.75
insolation
1479.567
mag
15.111
mass earth
1.6
name
Kepler-1468 c
orbital period days
3.5455
radius earth
1.15
semi major au
0.0466
sys num planets
3
sys num stars
1
tidally locked
yes
tidally locked inferred
yes

About Kepler-1468 c

Kepler-1468 c is an epic exoplanet. It lies about 6,194.5 light-years from Earth, shines at apparent magnitude 15.11, has an equilibrium temperature near 1,448 K and spans roughly 1.15 Earth radii.

Genuinely comparable to Earth in size. Worlds in this narrow band are the ones every next-generation telescope is being pointed at.

How to see it

At apparent magnitude 15.11, it takes a larger telescope or a long-exposure image to capture.

Like any astronomical target, Kepler-1468 c 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 Kepler-1468 c is an epic exoplanet

Kepler-1468 c scores 72 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the epic tier. Another 6 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 9 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Distant (over 1,000 light-years), Earth-sized, Lava world, Tidally locked, Multi-planet system, Blasted by starlight and Found by Kepler — 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.