About EPIC 220492298 b
EPIC 220492298 b is a rare exoplanet. It lies about 2,036.9 light-years from Earth, spans roughly 0.99 Earth radii, weighs about 0.94 Earth masses and completes an orbit every 0.76 days.
Almost exactly Earth-sized.
Rare exoplanet 45 EP
EPIC 220492298 b
RA 16.7615° · Dec 6.5888° · exoplanet
Score breakdown
· 4 badgesRare 46 pts → Epic
- Earth-sized +16
- Ultra-short period +14
- Distant (>1000 ly) +10
- Confirmed exoplanet +5
Total score 45
1 more point to reach Epic.
Badges
- Confirmed exoplanet · +5
- Earth-sized · +16
- Ultra-short period · +14
- Distant (>1000 ly) · +10
Trivia
Could we get there?
- Verdict. Impossible with our current technology — and the next millennium of it.
Getting there
- Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 35.8 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
- Fastest probe ever. ≈ 3.2 million years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
- At 10% light speed. ≈ 20.4 thousand years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
- Distance. 2037 light-years from Earth.
Look-back time
- Look-back time. Its light left before the last ice age ended.
Saying hello
- Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 4074 years round-trip.
Standing on it
- A year here. A full year lasts just 0.8 Earth days.
By the numbers
- Size. Almost exactly Earth-sized.
- Mass. About 0.9× the mass of Earth.
- Your weight. You'd weigh about 1.0× your Earth weight standing here.
How we found it
- Discovery. Found by K2 using the transit method.
Properties
- density gcc
- 5.31
- discovery facility
- K2
- discovery method
- Transit
- dist ly
- 2036.8834
- mass earth
- 0.937
- name
- EPIC 220492298 b
- orbital period days
- 0.7624
- radius earth
- 0.99
- sys num planets
- 1
How to see it
Like any astronomical target, EPIC 220492298 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 EPIC 220492298 b is a rare exoplanet
EPIC 220492298 b scores 45 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the rare tier. Another 1 point would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 4 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Earth-sized, Ultra-short period 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.