Rare exoplanet 41 EP

K2-2016-BLG-0005L b

RA 269.8798° · Dec -27.6075° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 5 badges

41 pts · Rare

Rare 46 pts → Epic

Found by microlensing +12
Long-period world +10
Distant (>1000 ly) +10
Confirmed exoplanet +5
Gas giant +4

Total score 41

5 more points to reach Epic.

Badges

Confirmed exoplanet · +5
Gas giant · +4
Long-period world · +10
Found by microlensing · +12
Distant (>1000 ly) · +10

Trivia

Could we get there?

Verdict. Impossible with our current technology — and the next millennium of it.

Getting there

Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 298 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
Fastest probe ever. ≈ 26.5 million years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
At 10% light speed. ≈ 169.6 thousand years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
Distance. 17 thousand light-years from Earth.

Look-back time

Look-back time. This light set out before Homo sapiens existed.

Saying hello

Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 33.9 thousand years round-trip.

Standing on it

A year here. A full year lasts about 12.9 Earth years.

By the numbers

Size. About 13.7× the width of Earth.
Volume. About 2571 Earths could fit inside it.
Mass. Roughly 350× Earth's mass — about 1.1 Jupiters.
Your weight. You'd weigh about 1.9× your Earth weight standing here.
Density. Less dense than water — drop it in a big enough ocean and it would float.

How we found it

Discovery. Found by K2 using the microlensing method.

Properties

density gcc: 0.747
discovery facility: K2
discovery method: Microlensing
dist ly: 16960.112
mass earth: 349.6112
name: K2-2016-BLG-0005L b
orbital period days: 4700
radius earth: 13.7
sys num planets: 1

About K2-2016-BLG-0005L b

K2-2016-BLG-0005L b is a rare exoplanet. It lies about 16,960.1 light-years from Earth, spans roughly 13.7 Earth radii, weighs about 349.61 Earth masses and completes an orbit every 4,700 days.

About 13.7× the width of Earth.

How to see it

Like any astronomical target, K2-2016-BLG-0005L 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 K2-2016-BLG-0005L b is a rare exoplanet

K2-2016-BLG-0005L b scores 41 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the rare tier. Another 5 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 5 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Gas giant, Long-period world, Found by microlensing and Distant (>1000 ly) — 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.