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Epic exoplanet 51 EP

KELT-21 b

RA 304.8000° · Dec 32.5810° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 6 badges
51 pts · Epic
Epic 68 pts → Anomaly
  • Lava world +14
  • Hot Jupiter +10
  • Distant (>1000 ly) +10
  • Blasted by starlight +8
  • Confirmed exoplanet +5
  • Gas giant +4
Total score 51

17 more points to reach Anomaly.

Badges

  • Confirmed exoplanet · +5
  • Gas giant · +4
  • Hot Jupiter · +10
  • Lava world · +14
  • Blasted by starlight · +8
  • Distant (>1000 ly) · +10

Trivia

What makes it special

  • Lava world. Its surface is likely an ocean of molten rock.

Could we get there?

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

Getting there

  • Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 27 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
  • Fastest probe ever. ≈ 2.4 million years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
  • At 10% light speed. ≈ 15.4 thousand years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
  • Distance. 1536 light-years from Earth.

Look-back time

  • Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 490.

Saying hello

  • Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 3072 years round-trip.

Standing on it

  • A year here. A full year lasts just 3.6 Earth days.

By the numbers

  • Size. About 17.8× the width of Earth.
  • Volume. About 5618 Earths could fit inside it.
  • Mass. Roughly 1243× Earth's mass — about 3.9 Jupiters.
  • Your weight. You'd weigh about 3.9× your Earth weight standing here.
  • Temperature. Around 2051 K — hot enough to vaporise iron.

How we found it

  • Discovery. Found by KELT-North using the transit method.

Properties

density gcc
1.24
discovery facility
KELT-North
discovery method
Transit
dist ly
1535.7968
eccentricity
0
eq temp k
2051
insolation
2950
mass earth
1242.7153
name
KELT-21 b
orbital period days
3.6128
radius earth
17.7775
sys num planets
1

About KELT-21 b

KELT-21 b is an epic exoplanet. It lies about 1,535.8 light-years from Earth, has an equilibrium temperature near 2,051 K, spans roughly 17.78 Earth radii and weighs about 1,242.72 Earth masses.

Its surface is likely an ocean of molten rock.

How to see it

Like any astronomical target, KELT-21 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-21 b is an epic exoplanet

KELT-21 b scores 51 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the epic tier. Another 17 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 6 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Gas giant, Hot Jupiter, Lava world, 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.

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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.