Common exoplanet 19 EP

EPIC 248847494 b

RA 159.3891° · Dec 11.8427° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 3 badges

19 pts · Common

Common 24 pts → Uncommon

Distant (>1000 ly) +10
Confirmed exoplanet +5
Gas giant +4

Total score 19

5 more points to reach Uncommon.

Badges

Confirmed exoplanet · +5
Gas giant · +4
Distant (>1000 ly) · +10

Trivia

Could we get there?

Verdict. Impossible with our current technology — and the next millennium of it.

Getting there

Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 31.6 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
Fastest probe ever. ≈ 2.8 million years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
At 10% light speed. ≈ 18 thousand years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
Distance. 1800 light-years from Earth.

Look-back time

Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 226.

Saying hello

Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 3600 years round-trip.

Standing on it

A year here. A full year lasts about 10 Earth years.

By the numbers

Size. About 12.4× the width of Earth.
Volume. About 1926 Earths could fit inside it.
Mass. Roughly 4132× Earth's mass — about 13 Jupiters.
Your weight. You'd weigh about 26.7× your Earth weight standing here.
Temperature. A frigid -90°C — colder than dry ice.

How we found it

Discovery. Found by K2 using the transit method.

Properties

discovery facility: K2
discovery method: Transit
dist ly: 1800.0093
eccentricity: 0
eq temp k: 183
insolation: 0.19
mass earth: 4131.79
name: EPIC 248847494 b
orbital period days: 3650
radius earth: 12.442
sys num planets: 1

About EPIC 248847494 b

EPIC 248847494 b is a common exoplanet. It lies about 1,800 light-years from Earth, has an equilibrium temperature near 183 K, spans roughly 12.44 Earth radii and weighs about 4,131.79 Earth masses.

About 12.4× the width of Earth.

How to see it

Like any astronomical target, EPIC 248847494 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 EPIC 248847494 b is a common exoplanet

EPIC 248847494 b scores 19 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the common tier. Another 5 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 3 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Gas giant 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.