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Epic exoplanet 58 EP

Kepler-32 f

RA 297.8423° · Dec 46.5744° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 6 badges
58 pts · Epic
Epic 78 pts → Anomaly
  • Earth-sized +16
  • Ultra-short period +14
  • Richly packed system +14
  • Distant (over 1,000 light-years) +6
  • Confirmed exoplanet +5
  • Found by Kepler +3
Total score 58

20 more points to reach Anomaly.

Badges

  • Confirmed exoplanet · +5
  • Distant (over 1,000 light-years) · +6
  • Earth-sized · +16
  • Ultra-short period · +14
  • Richly packed system · +14
  • Found by Kepler · +3

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.

Hard to believe

  • A year in a day. Its entire year is over in 17.8 hours. Birthdays here would come round faster than meals.

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. Lighter than Neptune — a puffed-up ball of hydrogen and helium with no surface anywhere on it to stand on.
  • Crowded system. One of at least 5 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 16.4 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
1.5
diameter km
10460.084
discovery facility
Kepler
discovery method
Transit
discovery year
2012
dist ly
1056.2464
eccentricity
0
eq temp k
1026
host star teff
3900
inclination
88.93
insolation
349.645
mag
16.36
mass earth
1862.11
name
Kepler-32 f
orbital period days
0.743
radius earth
0.82
semi major au
0.013
spect
M1 V
sys num planets
5
sys num stars
1
tidally locked
yes
tidally locked inferred
yes

About Kepler-32 f

Kepler-32 f is an epic exoplanet. It lies about 1,056.2 light-years from Earth, shines at apparent magnitude 16.36, has spectral type M1 V and has an equilibrium temperature near 1,026 K.

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 16.36, it takes a larger telescope or a long-exposure image to capture.

Like any astronomical target, Kepler-32 f 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-32 f is an epic exoplanet

Kepler-32 f scores 58 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the epic tier. Another 20 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 6 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Distant (over 1,000 light-years), Earth-sized, Ultra-short period, Richly packed system 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.