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Epic exoplanet 64 EP

Kepler-1027 b

RA 287.5712° · Dec 42.8138° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 8 badges
64 pts · Epic
Epic 78 pts → Anomaly
  • Earth-sized +16
  • Two suns in its sky +12
  • Tidally locked +10
  • Orbits a Sun-like star +8
  • Distant (over 1,000 light-years) +6
  • Confirmed exoplanet +5
  • Blasted by starlight +4
  • Found by Kepler +3
Total score 64

14 more points to reach Anomaly.

Badges

  • Confirmed exoplanet · +5
  • Distant (over 1,000 light-years) · +6
  • Earth-sized · +16
  • Tidally locked · +10
  • Blasted by starlight · +4
  • Found by Kepler · +3
  • Orbits a Sun-like star · +8
  • Two suns in its sky · +12

Trivia

What makes it special

  • Earth-sized. Genuinely comparable to Earth in size. Worlds in this narrow band are the ones every next-generation telescope is being pointed at.

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. Its density says rock, though lighter than Earth's mix: probably less iron, or a thick shell of water and ice over the top.

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 13 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
4.99
diameter km
11353.018
discovery facility
Kepler
discovery method
Transit
discovery year
2016
dist ly
1321.271
eccentricity
0
eq temp k
1268
host star teff
5436
inclination
86.74
insolation
1162.51
mag
12.994
mass earth
0.64
multi star system
yes
name
Kepler-1027 b
orbital period days
1.9078
radius earth
0.89
semi major au
0.0291
sys num planets
1
sys num stars
2
tidally locked
yes
tidally locked inferred
yes

About Kepler-1027 b

Kepler-1027 b is an epic exoplanet. It lies about 1,321.3 light-years from Earth, shines at apparent magnitude 12.99, has an equilibrium temperature near 1,268 K and spans roughly 0.89 Earth radii.

Genuinely comparable to Earth in size. Worlds in this narrow band are the ones every next-generation telescope is being pointed at.

How to see it

At apparent magnitude 12.99, it takes a larger telescope or a long-exposure image to capture.

Like any astronomical target, Kepler-1027 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-1027 b is an epic exoplanet

Kepler-1027 b scores 64 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the epic tier. Another 14 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 8 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Distant (over 1,000 light-years), Earth-sized, Tidally locked, Blasted by starlight, Found by Kepler, Orbits a Sun-like star 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.