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Uncommon exoplanet 31 EP

Kepler-970 b

RA 289.6252° · Dec 40.7087° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 5 badges
31 pts · Uncommon
Uncommon 34 pts → Rare
  • Two suns in its sky +12
  • Distant (over 1,000 light-years) +6
  • Confirmed exoplanet +5
  • Sub-Neptune +5
  • Found by Kepler +3
Total score 31

3 more points to reach Rare.

Badges

  • Confirmed exoplanet · +5
  • Distant (over 1,000 light-years) · +6
  • Sub-Neptune · +5
  • Found by Kepler · +3
  • Two suns in its sky · +12

Trivia

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 15.2 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. ≈ 19 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).

Properties

density gcc
2.26
diameter km
33280.9258
discovery facility
Kepler
discovery method
Transit
discovery year
2016
dist ly
1081.3539
eccentricity
0.34
eq temp k
464
host star teff
4290
inclination
88.74
insolation
11.111
mag
15.21
mass earth
7.31
multi star system
yes
name
Kepler-970 b
orbital period days
16.7365
radius earth
2.609
semi major au
0.139
sys num planets
1
sys num stars
2

About Kepler-970 b

Kepler-970 b is an uncommon exoplanet. It lies about 1,081.4 light-years from Earth, shines at apparent magnitude 15.21, has an equilibrium temperature near 464 K and spans roughly 2.61 Earth radii.

It orbits closer to its star than Mercury does to the Sun, completing a lap in less time than Mercury takes.

How to see it

At apparent magnitude 15.21, it takes a larger telescope or a long-exposure image to capture.

Like any astronomical target, Kepler-970 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-970 b is an uncommon exoplanet

Kepler-970 b scores 31 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the uncommon tier. Another 3 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 5 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Distant (over 1,000 light-years), Sub-Neptune, Found by Kepler and Two suns in its sky — 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.