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Epic exoplanet 57 EP

Kepler-1690 b

RA 288.1567° · Dec 41.8779° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 6 badges
57 pts · Epic
Epic 78 pts → Anomaly
  • In the habitable zone +30
  • Orbits a Sun-like star +8
  • Distant (over 1,000 light-years) +6
  • Confirmed exoplanet +5
  • Sub-Neptune +5
  • Found by Kepler +3
Total score 57

21 more points to reach Anomaly.

Badges

  • Confirmed exoplanet · +5
  • Distant (over 1,000 light-years) · +6
  • In the habitable zone · +30
  • Sub-Neptune · +5
  • Found by Kepler · +3
  • Orbits a Sun-like star · +8

Trivia

What makes it special

  • Goldilocks zone. Sits where it's neither too hot nor too cold — liquid water could exist on a surface here.

What it actually is

  • What it is made of. Too light to be solid rock and too heavy to be all gas: most likely a deep global ocean or a thick steamy envelope over a rocky core.
  • What the zone means. The habitable zone is only about temperature: it is the band where liquid water could survive on a surface. It is a promising address, not evidence of anything living.

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

Properties

density gcc
2.05
diameter km
35858.8547
discovery facility
Kepler
discovery method
Transit
discovery year
2020
dist ly
2295.4501
eccentricity
0
eq temp k
267
habitable zone
yes
host star teff
5404
inclination
89.99
insolation
1.2
mag
14.882
mass earth
8.3
name
Kepler-1690 b
orbital period days
234.636
radius earth
2.8111
semi major au
0.7097
sys num planets
1
sys num stars
1

About Kepler-1690 b

Kepler-1690 b is an epic exoplanet. It lies about 2,295.5 light-years from Earth, shines at apparent magnitude 14.88, has an equilibrium temperature near 267 K and spans roughly 2.81 Earth radii.

Sits where it's neither too hot nor too cold — liquid water could exist on a surface here.

How to see it

At apparent magnitude 14.88, it takes a larger telescope or a long-exposure image to capture.

Like any astronomical target, Kepler-1690 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-1690 b is an epic exoplanet

Kepler-1690 b scores 57 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the epic tier. Another 21 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 6 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Distant (over 1,000 light-years), In the habitable zone, Sub-Neptune, Found by Kepler and Orbits a Sun-like star — 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.