Epic exoplanet 66 EP

KOI-13 b

RA 286.9714° · Dec 46.8682° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 7 badges

66 pts · Epic

Epic 68 pts → Anomaly

Ultra-hot Jupiter +26
Hot Jupiter +10
Distant (>1000 ly) +10
Blasted by starlight +8
Confirmed exoplanet +5
Gas giant +4
Found by Kepler +3

Total score 66

2 more points to reach Anomaly.

Badges

Confirmed exoplanet · +5
Gas giant · +4
Hot Jupiter · +10
Ultra-hot Jupiter · +26
Blasted by starlight · +8
Found by Kepler · +3
Distant (>1000 ly) · +10

Trivia

What makes it special

Ultra-hot Jupiter. So hot that iron vaporises and rains back down as molten metal.

Could we get there?

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

Getting there

Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 29.8 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
Fastest probe ever. ≈ 2.6 million years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
At 10% light speed. ≈ 16.9 thousand years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
Distance. 1693 light-years from Earth.

Look-back time

Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 333.

Saying hello

Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 3386 years round-trip.

Standing on it

A year here. A full year lasts just 1.8 Earth days.

By the numbers

Size. About 16.9× the width of Earth.
Volume. About 4868 Earths could fit inside it.
Mass. Roughly 2949× Earth's mass — about 9.3 Jupiters.
Your weight. You'd weigh about 10.3× your Earth weight standing here.
Temperature. Around 2550 K — hot enough to vaporise iron.

How we found it

Discovery. Found by Kepler using the transit method.

Properties

density gcc: 3.6
discovery facility: Kepler
discovery method: Transit
dist ly: 1693.0627
eccentricity: 0.0006
eq temp k: 2550
insolation: 25339.901
mass earth: 2949.4624
name: KOI-13 b
orbital period days: 1.7636
radius earth: 16.948
sys num planets: 1

About KOI-13 b

KOI-13 b is an epic exoplanet. It lies about 1,693.1 light-years from Earth, has an equilibrium temperature near 2,550 K, spans roughly 16.95 Earth radii and weighs about 2,949.46 Earth masses.

So hot that iron vaporises and rains back down as molten metal.

How to see it

Like any astronomical target, KOI-13 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 KOI-13 b is an epic exoplanet

KOI-13 b scores 66 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the epic tier. Another 2 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 7 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Gas giant, Hot Jupiter, Ultra-hot Jupiter, Blasted by starlight, 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.