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Rare exoplanet 41 EP

KOI-351 f

RA 284.4335° · Dec 49.3051° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 6 badges
41 pts · Rare
Rare 50 pts → Epic
  • Richly packed system +14
  • Orbits a Sun-like star +8
  • Distant (over 1,000 light-years) +6
  • Confirmed exoplanet +5
  • Sub-Neptune +5
  • Found by Kepler +3
Total score 41

9 more points to reach Epic.

Badges

  • Confirmed exoplanet · +5
  • Distant (over 1,000 light-years) · +6
  • Sub-Neptune · +5
  • Richly packed system · +14
  • Found by Kepler · +3
  • Orbits a Sun-like star · +8

Trivia

What it actually is

  • 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.
  • Crowded system. One of at least 8 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 13.9 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. Impossible with our current technology — and the next millennium of it.

Getting there

  • Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 48.6 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).

Properties

density gcc
1.99
diameter km
36737.856
discovery facility
Kepler
discovery method
Transit
discovery year
2013
dist ly
2766.6313
eccentricity
0
eq temp k
407
host star teff
6080
inclination
89.77
insolation
6.796
mag
13.883
mass earth
8.65
name
KOI-351 f
orbital period days
124.9144
radius earth
2.88
semi major au
0.48
sys num planets
8
sys num stars
1

About KOI-351 f

KOI-351 f is a rare exoplanet. It lies about 2,766.6 light-years from Earth, shines at apparent magnitude 13.88, has an equilibrium temperature near 407 K and spans roughly 2.88 Earth radii.

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.

How to see it

At apparent magnitude 13.88, it takes a larger telescope or a long-exposure image to capture.

Like any astronomical target, KOI-351 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 KOI-351 f is a rare exoplanet

KOI-351 f scores 41 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the rare tier. Another 9 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 6 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Distant (over 1,000 light-years), Sub-Neptune, Richly packed system, Found by Kepler 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.