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Rare exoplanet 42 EP

Kepler-1646 b

RA 287.5265° · Dec 42.9129° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 5 badges
42 pts · Rare
Rare 50 pts → Epic
  • Earth-sized +16
  • Tidally locked +10
  • Orbits a red dwarf +8
  • Confirmed exoplanet +5
  • Found by Kepler +3
Total score 42

8 more points to reach Epic.

Badges

  • Confirmed exoplanet · +5
  • Earth-sized · +16
  • Tidally locked · +10
  • Found by Kepler · +3
  • Orbits a red dwarf · +8

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.

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.

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 16.8 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. Hopelessly far for any craft humanity can build today.

Properties

density gcc
6.02
diameter km
15690.126
discovery facility
Kepler
discovery method
Transit
discovery year
2016
dist ly
416.1457
eccentricity
0
eq temp k
365
host star teff
3299
inclination
89.36
insolation
4.2
mag
16.8419
mass earth
2.04
name
Kepler-1646 b
orbital period days
4.4856
radius earth
1.23
semi major au
0.0295
sys num planets
1
sys num stars
1
tidally locked
yes
tidally locked inferred
yes

About Kepler-1646 b

Kepler-1646 b is a rare exoplanet. It lies about 416.1 light-years from Earth, shines at apparent magnitude 16.84, has an equilibrium temperature near 365 K and spans roughly 1.23 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 16.84, it takes a larger telescope or a long-exposure image to capture.

Like any astronomical target, Kepler-1646 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-1646 b is a rare exoplanet

Kepler-1646 b scores 42 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the rare tier. Another 8 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 5 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Earth-sized, Tidally locked, Found by Kepler and Orbits a red dwarf — 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.