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Uncommon exoplanet 28 EP

Kepler-785 b

RA 292.0683° · Dec 38.8422° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 5 badges
28 pts · Uncommon
Uncommon 34 pts → Rare
  • Tidally locked +10
  • Distant (over 1,000 light-years) +6
  • Confirmed exoplanet +5
  • Gas giant +4
  • Found by Kepler +3
Total score 28

6 more points to reach Rare.

Badges

  • Confirmed exoplanet · +5
  • Distant (over 1,000 light-years) · +6
  • Gas giant · +4
  • Tidally locked · +10
  • Found by Kepler · +3

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.

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 16.3 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.

Getting there

  • Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 36.8 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
  • Fastest probe ever. ≈ 3.3 million years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.

Properties

diameter km
166085.724
discovery facility
Kepler
discovery method
Transit
discovery year
2016
dist ly
2094.0879
eccentricity
0
eq temp k
753
host star teff
4739
inclination
87.9
insolation
163.862
mag
16.315
name
Kepler-785 b
orbital period days
1.9738
radius earth
13.02
semi major au
0.025
sys num planets
1
sys num stars
1
tidally locked
yes
tidally locked inferred
yes

About Kepler-785 b

Kepler-785 b is an uncommon exoplanet. It lies about 2,094.1 light-years from Earth, shines at apparent magnitude 16.32, has an equilibrium temperature near 753 K and spans roughly 13.02 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 16.32, it takes a larger telescope or a long-exposure image to capture.

Like any astronomical target, Kepler-785 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-785 b is an uncommon exoplanet

Kepler-785 b scores 28 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the uncommon tier. Another 6 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 5 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Distant (over 1,000 light-years), Gas giant, Tidally locked 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.