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EPIC 249893012 b

RA 228.2482° · Dec -16.7246° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 8 badges
61 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
  • Blasted by starlight +4
Total score 61

17 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
  • Blasted by starlight · +4
  • 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. Denser than Earth — a solid world of rock and iron, with no meaningful atmosphere to speak of by mass.
  • Crowded system. One of at least 3 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 11.4 you'll want a small backyard telescope.
  • Southern sky. It rides the southern half of the sky — an easier target the further south you are.
  • Best time of year. It stands highest in the middle of the night around May — that's when to go looking.

Properties

density gcc
6.39
diameter km
24874.59
discovery facility
K2
discovery method
Transit
discovery year
2020
dist ly
1047.9262
eccentricity
0.06
eq temp k
1616
host star teff
5430
inclination
86.14
insolation
1037
mag
11.429
mass earth
8.75
name
EPIC 249893012 b
orbital period days
3.5951
radius earth
1.95
semi major au
0.047
spect
G8 IV/V
sys num planets
3
sys num stars
1
tidally locked
yes
tidally locked inferred
yes

About EPIC 249893012 b

EPIC 249893012 b is an epic exoplanet. It lies about 1,047.9 light-years from Earth, shines at apparent magnitude 11.43, has spectral type G8 IV/V and has an equilibrium temperature near 1,616 K.

Its surface is almost certainly an ocean of molten rock, kept liquid by the star it hugs.

How to see it

At apparent magnitude 11.43, a small backyard telescope will bring it into view.

Like any astronomical target, EPIC 249893012 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 249893012 b is an epic exoplanet

EPIC 249893012 b scores 61 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the epic tier. Another 17 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, Blasted by starlight 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.