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Epic exoplanet 62 EP

Kepler-283 c

RA 293.6137° · Dec 47.8389° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 6 badges
62 pts · Epic
Epic 68 pts → Anomaly
  • In the habitable zone +30
  • Distant (>1000 ly) +10
  • Super-Earth +8
  • Multi-planet system +6
  • Confirmed exoplanet +5
  • Found by Kepler +3
Total score 62

6 more points to reach Anomaly.

Badges

  • Confirmed exoplanet · +5
  • In the habitable zone · +30
  • Super-Earth · +8
  • Multi-planet system · +6
  • Found by Kepler · +3
  • Distant (>1000 ly) · +10

Trivia

What makes it special

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

Could we get there?

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

Getting there

  • Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 26.8 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. ≈ 15.3 thousand years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
  • Distance. 1527 light-years from Earth.

Look-back time

  • Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 499.

Saying hello

  • Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 3053 years round-trip.

Standing on it

  • A year here. A full year lasts just 92.7 Earth days.

By the numbers

  • Size. About 1.8× the width of Earth.
  • Volume. About 6 Earths could fit inside it.
  • Mass. About 4× the mass of Earth.
  • Your weight. You'd weigh about 1.2× your Earth weight standing here.
  • Temperature. A frigid -33°C — colder than dry ice.

How we found it

  • Discovery. Found by Kepler using the transit method.

Cosmic context

  • Crowded system. One of at least 2 planets orbiting its star.

Properties

density gcc
3.62
discovery facility
Kepler
discovery method
Transit
dist ly
1526.7167
eccentricity
0
eq temp k
240
habitable zone
yes
insolation
0.949
mass earth
3.97
name
Kepler-283 c
orbital period days
92.7437
radius earth
1.82
sys num planets
2

About Kepler-283 c

Kepler-283 c is an epic exoplanet. It lies about 1,526.7 light-years from Earth, has an equilibrium temperature near 240 K, spans roughly 1.82 Earth radii and weighs about 3.97 Earth masses.

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

How to see it

Like any astronomical target, Kepler-283 c 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-283 c is an epic exoplanet

Kepler-283 c scores 62 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the epic tier. Another 6 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 6 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, In the habitable zone, Super-Earth, 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.

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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.