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Rare exoplanet 45 EP

Kepler-104 c

RA 287.6047° · Dec 42.1665° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 7 badges
45 pts · Rare
Rare 50 pts → Epic
  • Two suns in its sky +12
  • Orbits a Sun-like star +8
  • Distant (over 1,000 light-years) +6
  • Multi-planet system +6
  • Confirmed exoplanet +5
  • Sub-Neptune +5
  • Found by Kepler +3
Total score 45

5 more points to reach Epic.

Badges

  • Confirmed exoplanet · +5
  • Distant (over 1,000 light-years) · +6
  • Sub-Neptune · +5
  • Multi-planet system · +6
  • Found by Kepler · +3
  • Orbits a Sun-like star · +8
  • Two suns in its sky · +12

Trivia

What it actually is

  • Hugging its star. It orbits closer to its star than Mercury does to the Sun, completing a lap in less time than Mercury takes.
  • 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.
  • Crowded system. One of at least 3 planets orbiting its star.

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 12.7 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
2.9949
diameter km
39926.906
discovery facility
Kepler
discovery method
Transit
discovery year
2014
dist ly
1307.1843
eccentricity
0
eq temp k
668
host star teff
5711
inclination
87.95
insolation
45.438
mag
12.697
mass earth
7.1443
multi star system
yes
name
Kepler-104 c
orbital period days
23.6682
radius earth
3.13
semi major au
0.153
sys num planets
3
sys num stars
2

About Kepler-104 c

Kepler-104 c is a rare exoplanet. It lies about 1,307.2 light-years from Earth, shines at apparent magnitude 12.7, has an equilibrium temperature near 668 K and spans roughly 3.13 Earth radii.

It orbits closer to its star than Mercury does to the Sun, completing a lap in less time than Mercury takes.

How to see it

At apparent magnitude 12.7, it takes a larger telescope or a long-exposure image to capture.

Like any astronomical target, Kepler-104 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-104 c is a rare exoplanet

Kepler-104 c scores 45 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the rare tier. Another 5 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 7 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Distant (over 1,000 light-years), Sub-Neptune, Multi-planet system, Found by Kepler, Orbits a Sun-like star and Two suns in its sky — 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.