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Uncommon exoplanet 28 EP

Kepler-539 c

RA 299.1225° · Dec 41.8668° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 5 badges
28 pts · Uncommon
Uncommon 33 pts → Rare
  • Distant (>1000 ly) +10
  • Multi-planet system +6
  • Confirmed exoplanet +5
  • Gas giant +4
  • Found by Kepler +3
Total score 28

5 more points to reach Rare.

Badges

  • Confirmed exoplanet · +5
  • Gas giant · +4
  • Multi-planet system · +6
  • Found by Kepler · +3
  • 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. ≈ 17.6 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
  • Fastest probe ever. ≈ 1.6 million years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
  • At 10% light speed. ≈ 10 thousand years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
  • Distance. 1002 light-years from Earth.

Look-back time

  • Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 1024.

Saying hello

  • Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 2005 years round-trip.

Standing on it

  • A year here. A full year lasts about 2.7 Earth years.

By the numbers

  • Size. About 13.3× the width of Earth.
  • Volume. About 2353 Earths could fit inside it.
  • Mass. Roughly 763× Earth's mass — about 2.4 Jupiters.
  • Your weight. You'd weigh about 4.3× your Earth weight standing here.
  • Temperature. A surprisingly temperate -20°C average.

How we found it

  • Discovery. Found by Kepler using the transit timing variations method.

Cosmic context

  • Crowded system. One of at least 2 planets orbiting its star.

Properties

density gcc
1.78
discovery facility
Kepler
discovery method
Transit Timing Variations
dist ly
1002.3361
eccentricity
0.5
eq temp k
253
insolation
0.1486
mass earth
762.792
name
Kepler-539 c
orbital period days
1000
radius earth
13.3
sys num planets
2

About Kepler-539 c

Kepler-539 c is an uncommon exoplanet. It lies about 1,002.3 light-years from Earth, has an equilibrium temperature near 253 K, spans roughly 13.3 Earth radii and weighs about 762.79 Earth masses.

One of at least 2 planets orbiting its star.

How to see it

Like any astronomical target, Kepler-539 c 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-539 c is an uncommon exoplanet

Kepler-539 c scores 28 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the uncommon tier. Another 5 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 5 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Gas giant, Multi-planet system, Found by Kepler 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.

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Sky imagery and survey data courtesy of Aladin Lite & CDS, Strasbourg. Object data from the NASA Exoplanet Archive, JPL Small-Body Database, and the ATNF Pulsar Catalogue.