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Epic exoplanet 59 EP

Kepler-1171 b

RA 294.9589° · Dec 38.5916° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 7 badges
59 pts · Epic
Epic 78 pts → Anomaly
  • Ultra-hot Jupiter +26
  • Tidally locked +10
  • Distant (over 1,000 light-years) +6
  • Confirmed exoplanet +5
  • Sub-Neptune +5
  • Blasted by starlight +4
  • Found by Kepler +3
Total score 59

19 more points to reach Anomaly.

Badges

  • Confirmed exoplanet · +5
  • Distant (over 1,000 light-years) · +6
  • Sub-Neptune · +5
  • Ultra-hot Jupiter · +26
  • Tidally locked · +10
  • Blasted by starlight · +4
  • Found by Kepler · +3

Trivia

What makes it special

  • Ultra-hot Jupiter. So hot that iron vaporises on the dayside, blows around to the night side and rains back down as molten metal.

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.

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 11.6 you'll want a small backyard telescope.
  • 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
2.32
diameter km
32655.872
discovery facility
Kepler
discovery method
Transit
discovery year
2016
dist ly
1868.8739
eccentricity
0
eq temp k
2700
host star teff
7044
inclination
86.82
insolation
10171.005
mag
11.647
mass earth
7.08
name
Kepler-1171 b
orbital period days
1.4426
radius earth
2.56
semi major au
0.0284
sys num planets
1
sys num stars
1
tidally locked
yes
tidally locked inferred
yes

About Kepler-1171 b

Kepler-1171 b is an epic exoplanet. It lies about 1,868.9 light-years from Earth, shines at apparent magnitude 11.65, has an equilibrium temperature near 2,700 K and spans roughly 2.56 Earth radii.

So hot that iron vaporises on the dayside, blows around to the night side and rains back down as molten metal.

How to see it

At apparent magnitude 11.65, a small backyard telescope will bring it into view.

Like any astronomical target, Kepler-1171 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-1171 b is an epic exoplanet

Kepler-1171 b scores 59 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the epic tier. Another 19 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, Ultra-hot Jupiter, Tidally locked, Blasted by starlight and Found by Kepler — 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.