About Kepler-272 b
Kepler-272 b is an epic exoplanet. It lies about 2,901.5 light-years from Earth, has an equilibrium temperature near 1,200 K, spans roughly 1.43 Earth radii and weighs about 78 Earth masses.
Packed denser than solid iron.
Epic exoplanet 50 EP
Kepler-272 b
RA 299.1275° · Dec 47.5938° · exoplanet
Score breakdown
· 6 badgesEpic 68 pts → Anomaly
- Denser than iron +18
- Distant (>1000 ly) +10
- Super-Earth +8
- Multi-planet system +6
- Confirmed exoplanet +5
- Found by Kepler +3
Total score 50
18 more points to reach Anomaly.
Badges
- Confirmed exoplanet · +5
- Super-Earth · +8
- Denser than iron · +18
- Multi-planet system · +6
- Found by Kepler · +3
- Distant (>1000 ly) · +10
Trivia
What makes it special
- Heavyweight. Packed denser than solid iron.
Could we get there?
- Verdict. Impossible with our current technology — and the next millennium of it.
Getting there
- Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 51 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
- Fastest probe ever. ≈ 4.5 million years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
- At 10% light speed. ≈ 29 thousand years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
- Distance. 2902 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 5803 years round-trip.
Standing on it
- A year here. A full year lasts just 3 Earth days.
By the numbers
- Size. About 1.4× the width of Earth.
- Mass. Roughly 78× Earth's mass — about 0.2 Jupiters.
- Your weight. You'd weigh about 38.1× your Earth weight standing here.
- Density. Denser than solid iron.
- Temperature. Around 927°C — hotter than a self-cleaning oven.
How we found it
- Discovery. Found by Kepler using the transit method.
Cosmic context
- Crowded system. One of at least 3 planets orbiting its star.
Properties
- density gcc
- 147
- discovery facility
- Kepler
- discovery method
- Transit
- dist ly
- 2901.5099
- eccentricity
- 0
- eq temp k
- 1200
- insolation
- 801.741
- mass earth
- 78
- name
- Kepler-272 b
- orbital period days
- 2.9714
- radius earth
- 1.43
- sys num planets
- 3
How to see it
Like any astronomical target, Kepler-272 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-272 b is an epic exoplanet
Kepler-272 b scores 50 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the epic tier. Another 18 points would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 6 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Super-Earth, Denser than iron, Multi-planet system, Found by Kepler 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.