← Back to dex
Rare exoplanet 44 EP

Kepler-1349 b

RA 286.3386° · Dec 48.7443° · exoplanet

Loading sky survey…
🌌 View in 3D star map
Tonight’s visibility

Computing the sky for your location…

Score breakdown

· 6 badges
44 pts · Rare
Rare 50 pts → Epic
  • Lava world +14
  • Tidally locked +10
  • Orbits a Sun-like star +8
  • Confirmed exoplanet +5
  • Blasted by starlight +4
  • Found by Kepler +3
Total score 44

6 more points to reach Epic.

Badges

  • Confirmed exoplanet · +5
  • Lava world · +14
  • Tidally locked · +10
  • Blasted by starlight · +4
  • Found by Kepler · +3
  • Orbits a Sun-like star · +8

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. Its density says rock, though lighter than Earth's mix: probably less iron, or a thick shell of water and ice over the top.

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 11.2 you'll want a small backyard telescope.
  • Northern sky. It rides the northern half of the sky — an easier target the further north you are.
  • Best time of year. It stands highest in the middle of the night around July — that's when to go looking.

Could we get there?

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

Properties

density gcc
4.34
diameter km
8929.34
discovery facility
Kepler
discovery method
Transit
discovery year
2016
dist ly
901.244
eccentricity
0
eq temp k
1668
host star teff
6086
inclination
88.92
insolation
1862.33
mag
11.209
mass earth
0.271
name
Kepler-1349 b
orbital period days
2.1282
radius earth
0.7
semi major au
0.0342
sys num planets
1
sys num stars
1
tidally locked
yes
tidally locked inferred
yes

About Kepler-1349 b

Kepler-1349 b is a rare exoplanet. It lies about 901.2 light-years from Earth, shines at apparent magnitude 11.21, has an equilibrium temperature near 1,668 K and spans roughly 0.7 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 11.21, a small backyard telescope will bring it into view.

Like any astronomical target, Kepler-1349 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 Kepler-1349 b is a rare exoplanet

Kepler-1349 b scores 44 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the rare tier. Another 6 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 6 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Lava world, Tidally locked, Blasted by starlight, Found by Kepler and Orbits a Sun-like star — 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.