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Epic exoplanet 61 EP

Kepler-416 b

RA 291.5570° · Dec 39.2273° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 8 badges
61 pts · Epic
Epic 78 pts → Anomaly
  • Denser than iron +18
  • Tidally locked +10
  • 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 61

17 more points to reach Anomaly.

Badges

  • Confirmed exoplanet · +5
  • Distant (over 1,000 light-years) · +6
  • Sub-Neptune · +5
  • Tidally locked · +10
  • Denser than iron · +18
  • Multi-planet system · +6
  • Found by Kepler · +3
  • Orbits a Sun-like star · +8

Trivia

Hard to believe

  • Denser than iron. It is packed tighter than solid iron — whatever it is made of, it is not ordinary rock.

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. Denser than Earth — a solid world of rock and iron, with no meaningful atmosphere to speak of by mass.
  • 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 14.2 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.

Properties

density gcc
21
diameter km
31635.376
discovery facility
Kepler
discovery method
Transit Timing Variations
discovery year
2014
dist ly
2253.1476
eccentricity
0
eq temp k
986
host star teff
5718
inclination
85.42
insolation
224.089
mag
14.166
mass earth
58.2
name
Kepler-416 b
orbital period days
6.319
radius earth
2.48
semi major au
0.0674
sys num planets
3
sys num stars
1
tidally locked
yes
tidally locked inferred
yes

About Kepler-416 b

Kepler-416 b is an epic exoplanet. It lies about 2,253.1 light-years from Earth, shines at apparent magnitude 14.17, has an equilibrium temperature near 986 K and spans roughly 2.48 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 14.17, it takes a larger telescope or a long-exposure image to capture.

Like any astronomical target, Kepler-416 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-416 b is an epic exoplanet

Kepler-416 b scores 61 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the epic tier. Another 17 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 8 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Distant (over 1,000 light-years), Sub-Neptune, Tidally locked, Denser than iron, Multi-planet system, Found by Kepler and Orbits a Sun-like star — 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.