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Epic exoplanet 64 EP

Kepler-326 d

RA 294.3256° · Dec 46.0023° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 7 badges
64 pts · Epic
Epic 78 pts → Anomaly
  • Denser than iron +18
  • Earth-sized +16
  • Tidally locked +10
  • Distant (over 1,000 light-years) +6
  • Multi-planet system +6
  • Confirmed exoplanet +5
  • Found by Kepler +3
Total score 64

14 more points to reach Anomaly.

Badges

  • Confirmed exoplanet · +5
  • Distant (over 1,000 light-years) · +6
  • Earth-sized · +16
  • Tidally locked · +10
  • Denser than iron · +18
  • Multi-planet system · +6
  • 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

  • Denser than iron. It is packed tighter than solid iron — whatever it is made of, it is not ordinary rock.

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 13.7 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
21.4
diameter km
15435.002
discovery facility
Kepler
discovery method
Transit
discovery year
2014
dist ly
1590.5813
eccentricity
0
eq temp k
781
host star teff
5105
inclination
88.43
insolation
180.644
mag
13.734
mass earth
6.9
name
Kepler-326 d
orbital period days
6.7669
radius earth
1.21
semi major au
0.066
sys num planets
3
sys num stars
1
tidally locked
yes
tidally locked inferred
yes

About Kepler-326 d

Kepler-326 d is an epic exoplanet. It lies about 1,590.6 light-years from Earth, shines at apparent magnitude 13.73, has an equilibrium temperature near 781 K and spans roughly 1.21 Earth radii.

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

Like any astronomical target, Kepler-326 d 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-326 d is an epic exoplanet

Kepler-326 d scores 64 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the epic tier. Another 14 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 7 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Distant (over 1,000 light-years), Earth-sized, Tidally locked, Denser than iron, Multi-planet 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.