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Epic exoplanet 58 EP

Kepler-14 b

RA 287.7088° · Dec 47.3331° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 8 badges
58 pts · Epic
Epic 78 pts → Anomaly
  • Lava world +14
  • Two suns in its sky +12
  • Tidally locked +10
  • Distant (over 1,000 light-years) +6
  • Confirmed exoplanet +5
  • Gas giant +4
  • Blasted by starlight +4
  • Found by Kepler +3
Total score 58

20 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
  • Two suns in its sky · +12

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

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 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
7.1
diameter km
162424.6946
discovery facility
Kepler
discovery method
Transit
discovery year
2011
dist ly
2602.7249
eccentricity
0.035
eq temp k
1605
host star teff
6395
inclination
90
insolation
1029.51
mag
12.003
mass earth
2669.66
multi star system
yes
name
Kepler-14 b
orbital period days
6.7901
radius earth
12.733
semi major au
0.0771
sys num planets
1
sys num stars
2
tidally locked
yes
tidally locked inferred
yes

About Kepler-14 b

Kepler-14 b is an epic exoplanet. It lies about 2,602.7 light-years from Earth, shines at apparent magnitude 12, has an equilibrium temperature near 1,605 K and spans roughly 12.73 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 12, it takes a larger telescope or a long-exposure image to capture.

Like any astronomical target, Kepler-14 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-14 b is an epic exoplanet

Kepler-14 b scores 58 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the epic tier. Another 20 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 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.