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Epic exoplanet 60 EP

Kepler-208 b

RA 293.8902° · Dec 42.5279° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 8 badges
60 pts · Epic
Epic 78 pts → Anomaly
  • Lava world +14
  • Tidally locked +10
  • Super-Earth +8
  • Orbits a Sun-like star +8
  • Distant (over 1,000 light-years) +6
  • Multi-planet system +6
  • Confirmed exoplanet +5
  • Found by Kepler +3
Total score 60

18 more points to reach Anomaly.

Badges

  • Confirmed exoplanet · +5
  • Distant (over 1,000 light-years) · +6
  • Super-Earth · +8
  • Lava world · +14
  • Tidally locked · +10
  • Multi-planet system · +6
  • 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.
  • Crowded system. One of at least 4 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 13.6 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.
  • Best time of year. It stands highest in the middle of the night around July — that's when to go looking.

Properties

density gcc
4.17
diameter km
20792.606
discovery facility
Kepler
discovery method
Transit
discovery year
2014
dist ly
2528.7788
eccentricity
0
eq temp k
1379
host star teff
6092
inclination
89.94
insolation
639.576
mag
13.561
mass earth
3.29
name
Kepler-208 b
orbital period days
4.2286
radius earth
1.63
semi major au
0.054
sys num planets
4
sys num stars
1
tidally locked
yes
tidally locked inferred
yes

About Kepler-208 b

Kepler-208 b is an epic exoplanet. It lies about 2,528.8 light-years from Earth, shines at apparent magnitude 13.56, has an equilibrium temperature near 1,379 K and spans roughly 1.63 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 13.56, it takes a larger telescope or a long-exposure image to capture.

Like any astronomical target, Kepler-208 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-208 b is an epic exoplanet

Kepler-208 b scores 60 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the epic tier. Another 18 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 8 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Distant (over 1,000 light-years), Super-Earth, Lava world, Tidally locked, Multi-planet system, 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.