RA 337.5136° · Dec -13.6101° · exoplanet
9 more points to reach Rare.
EPIC 206042996 b is an uncommon exoplanet. It lies about 1,473.5 light-years from Earth, shines at apparent magnitude 16.59, spans roughly 1.7 Earth radii and weighs about 3.53 Earth masses.
It orbits closer to its star than Mercury does to the Sun, completing a lap in less time than Mercury takes.
At apparent magnitude 16.59, it takes a larger telescope or a long-exposure image to capture.
Like any astronomical target, EPIC 206042996 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.
EPIC 206042996 b scores 25 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the uncommon tier. Another 9 points would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 4 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Distant (over 1,000 light-years), Super-Earth and Multi-planet system — 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.