Anomaly exoplanet 77 EP

KELT-16 b

RA 314.2685° · Dec 31.6610° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 7 badges

77 pts · Anomaly

Anomaly 95 pts → Mythic

Ultra-hot Jupiter +26
Ultra-short period +14
Hot Jupiter +10
Distant (>1000 ly) +10
Blasted by starlight +8
Confirmed exoplanet +5
Gas giant +4

Total score 77

18 more points to reach Mythic.

Badges

Confirmed exoplanet · +5
Gas giant · +4
Hot Jupiter · +10
Ultra-hot Jupiter · +26
Ultra-short period · +14
Blasted by starlight · +8
Distant (>1000 ly) · +10

Trivia

What makes it special

Ultra-hot Jupiter. So hot that iron vaporises and rains back down as molten metal.

Could we get there?

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

Getting there

Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 25.5 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
Fastest probe ever. ≈ 2.3 million years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
At 10% light speed. ≈ 14.5 thousand years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
Distance. 1450 light-years from Earth.

Look-back time

Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 576.

Saying hello

Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 2900 years round-trip.

Standing on it

A year here. A full year lasts just 1 Earth days.

By the numbers

Size. About 15.9× the width of Earth.
Volume. About 3990 Earths could fit inside it.
Mass. Roughly 874× Earth's mass — about 2.8 Jupiters.
Your weight. You'd weigh about 3.5× your Earth weight standing here.
Temperature. Around 2453 K — hot enough to vaporise iron.

How we found it

Discovery. Found by KELT using the transit method.

Properties

density gcc: 1.2
discovery facility: KELT
discovery method: Transit
dist ly: 1450.0439
eccentricity: 0
eq temp k: 2453
insolation: 6992.0328
mass earth: 874.0325
name: KELT-16 b
orbital period days: 0.969
radius earth: 15.8607
sys num planets: 1

About KELT-16 b

KELT-16 b is an anomaly exoplanet. It lies about 1,450 light-years from Earth, has an equilibrium temperature near 2,453 K, spans roughly 15.86 Earth radii and weighs about 874.03 Earth masses.

So hot that iron vaporises and rains back down as molten metal.

How to see it

Like any astronomical target, KELT-16 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 KELT-16 b is an anomaly exoplanet

KELT-16 b scores 77 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the anomaly tier. Another 18 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 7 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Gas giant, Hot Jupiter, Ultra-hot Jupiter, Ultra-short period, Blasted by starlight 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.