Uncommon exoplanet 29 EP

Kepler-261 b

RA 291.3647° · Dec 37.6092° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 5 badges

29 pts · Uncommon

Uncommon 33 pts → Rare

Distant (>1000 ly) +10
Multi-planet system +6
Confirmed exoplanet +5
Sub-Neptune +5
Found by Kepler +3

Total score 29

4 more points to reach Rare.

Badges

Confirmed exoplanet · +5
Sub-Neptune · +5
Multi-planet system · +6
Found by Kepler · +3
Distant (>1000 ly) · +10

Trivia

Could we get there?

Verdict. Impossible with our current technology — and the next millennium of it.

Getting there

Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 18.2 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
Fastest probe ever. ≈ 1.6 million years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
At 10% light speed. ≈ 10.4 thousand years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
Distance. 1036 light-years from Earth.

Look-back time

Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 990.

Saying hello

Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 2071 years round-trip.

Standing on it

A year here. A full year lasts just 10.4 Earth days.

By the numbers

Size. About 2.2× the width of Earth.
Volume. About 10.4 Earths could fit inside it.
Mass. About 5.4× the mass of Earth.
Your weight. You'd weigh about 1.1× your Earth weight standing here.
Temperature. A scorching 399°C on average.

How we found it

Discovery. Found by Kepler using the transit method.

Cosmic context

Crowded system. One of at least 2 planets orbiting its star.

Properties

density gcc: 2.86
discovery facility: Kepler
discovery method: Transit
dist ly: 1035.542
eccentricity: 0
eq temp k: 672
insolation: 45.779
mass earth: 5.39
name: Kepler-261 b
orbital period days: 10.3812
radius earth: 2.18
sys num planets: 2

About Kepler-261 b

Kepler-261 b is an uncommon exoplanet. It lies about 1,035.5 light-years from Earth, has an equilibrium temperature near 672 K, spans roughly 2.18 Earth radii and weighs about 5.39 Earth masses.

One of at least 2 planets orbiting its star.

How to see it

Like any astronomical target, Kepler-261 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-261 b is an uncommon exoplanet

Kepler-261 b scores 29 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the uncommon tier. Another 4 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 5 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Sub-Neptune, Multi-planet system, Found by Kepler and Distant (>1000 ly) — 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.