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Rare exoplanet 37 EP

Kepler-960 b

RA 281.4572° · Dec 46.7466° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 5 badges
37 pts · Rare
Rare 50 pts → Epic
  • Lava world +14
  • Tidally locked +10
  • Confirmed exoplanet +5
  • Sub-Neptune +5
  • Found by Kepler +3
Total score 37

13 more points to reach Epic.

Badges

  • Confirmed exoplanet · +5
  • Sub-Neptune · +5
  • Lava world · +14
  • Tidally locked · +10
  • Found by Kepler · +3

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. Too light to be solid rock and too heavy to be all gas: most likely a deep global ocean or a thick steamy envelope over a rocky core.

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 14.1 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.

Could we get there?

  • Verdict. Hopelessly far for any craft humanity can build today.

Properties

density gcc
2.68
diameter km
29211.698
discovery facility
Kepler
discovery method
Transit
discovery year
2016
dist ly
929.2706
eccentricity
0
eq temp k
1391
host star teff
4755
inclination
87.93
insolation
129.223
mag
14.127
mass earth
5.86
name
Kepler-960 b
orbital period days
3.1269
radius earth
2.29
semi major au
0.0381
sys num planets
1
sys num stars
1
tidally locked
yes
tidally locked inferred
yes

About Kepler-960 b

Kepler-960 b is a rare exoplanet. It lies about 929.3 light-years from Earth, shines at apparent magnitude 14.13, has an equilibrium temperature near 1,391 K and spans roughly 2.29 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 14.13, it takes a larger telescope or a long-exposure image to capture.

Like any astronomical target, Kepler-960 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-960 b is a rare exoplanet

Kepler-960 b scores 37 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the rare tier. Another 13 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 5 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Sub-Neptune, Lava world, Tidally locked 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.