About Kepler-139 c
Kepler-139 c is an epic exoplanet. It lies about 1,275.4 light-years from Earth, has an equilibrium temperature near 350 K, spans roughly 3.38 Earth radii and weighs about 13 Earth masses.
Packed denser than solid iron.
Epic exoplanet 61 EP
Kepler-139 c
RA 282.3919° · Dec 43.8894° · exoplanet
Score breakdown
· 7 badgesEpic 68 pts → Anomaly
- Denser than iron +18
- Richly packed system +14
- Distant (>1000 ly) +10
- Multi-planet system +6
- Confirmed exoplanet +5
- Sub-Neptune +5
- Found by Kepler +3
Total score 61
7 more points to reach Anomaly.
Badges
- Confirmed exoplanet · +5
- Sub-Neptune · +5
- Denser than iron · +18
- Multi-planet system · +6
- Richly packed system · +14
- Found by Kepler · +3
- Distant (>1000 ly) · +10
Trivia
What makes it special
- Heavyweight. Packed denser than solid iron.
- Packed system. Crammed into a system of five or more planets.
Could we get there?
- Verdict. Impossible with our current technology — and the next millennium of it.
Getting there
- Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 22.4 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
- Fastest probe ever. ≈ 2 million years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
- At 10% light speed. ≈ 12.8 thousand years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
- Distance. 1275 light-years from Earth.
Look-back time
- Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 751.
Saying hello
- Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 2551 years round-trip.
Standing on it
- A year here. A full year lasts just 157 Earth days.
By the numbers
- Size. About 3.4× the width of Earth.
- Volume. About 38.6 Earths could fit inside it.
- Mass. About 13× the mass of Earth.
- Your weight. You'd weigh about 1.1× your Earth weight standing here.
- Density. Denser than solid iron.
- Temperature. A scorching 77°C on average.
How we found it
- Discovery. Found by Kepler using the transit method.
Cosmic context
- Crowded system. One of at least 5 planets orbiting its star.
Properties
- density gcc
- 8.7027
- discovery facility
- Kepler
- discovery method
- Transit
- dist ly
- 1275.3939
- eccentricity
- 0
- eq temp k
- 350
- insolation
- 3.023
- mass earth
- 13
- name
- Kepler-139 c
- orbital period days
- 157.0729
- radius earth
- 3.38
- sys num planets
- 5
How to see it
Like any astronomical target, Kepler-139 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-139 c is an epic exoplanet
Kepler-139 c scores 61 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the epic tier. Another 7 points would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 7 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Sub-Neptune, Denser than iron, Multi-planet system, Richly packed system, Found by Kepler and Distant (>1000 ly) — 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.