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Epic exoplanet 54 EP

Kepler-762 b

RA 291.2757° · Dec 47.3295° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 8 badges
54 pts · Epic
Epic 78 pts → Anomaly
  • Lava world +14
  • Tidally locked +10
  • Orbits a Sun-like star +8
  • Distant (over 1,000 light-years) +6
  • Confirmed exoplanet +5
  • Gas giant +4
  • Blasted by starlight +4
  • Found by Kepler +3
Total score 54

24 more points to reach Anomaly.

Badges

  • Confirmed exoplanet · +5
  • Distant (over 1,000 light-years) · +6
  • Gas giant · +4
  • Lava world · +14
  • Tidally locked · +10
  • Blasted by starlight · +4
  • Found by Kepler · +3
  • Orbits a Sun-like star · +8

Trivia

What makes it special

  • Lava world. Its surface is almost certainly an ocean of molten rock, kept liquid by the star it hugs.

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 15.6 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. ≈ 108.8 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).

Properties

diameter km
161748.616
discovery facility
Kepler
discovery method
Transit
discovery year
2016
dist ly
6191.2889
eccentricity
0
eq temp k
1302
host star teff
5944
inclination
89.64
insolation
1065.734
mag
15.574
name
Kepler-762 b
orbital period days
3.7706
radius earth
12.68
semi major au
0.0493
sys num planets
1
sys num stars
1
tidally locked
yes
tidally locked inferred
yes

About Kepler-762 b

Kepler-762 b is an epic exoplanet. It lies about 6,191.3 light-years from Earth, shines at apparent magnitude 15.57, has an equilibrium temperature near 1,302 K and spans roughly 12.68 Earth radii.

Its surface is almost certainly an ocean of molten rock, kept liquid by the star it hugs.

How to see it

At apparent magnitude 15.57, it takes a larger telescope or a long-exposure image to capture.

Like any astronomical target, Kepler-762 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-762 b is an epic exoplanet

Kepler-762 b scores 54 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the epic tier. Another 24 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 8 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Distant (over 1,000 light-years), Gas giant, Lava world, Tidally locked, Blasted by starlight, 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.