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Uncommon exoplanet 24 EP

Kepler-10 d

RA 285.6793° · Dec 50.2415° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 4 badges
24 pts · Uncommon
Uncommon 34 pts → Rare
  • Orbits a Sun-like star +8
  • Multi-planet system +6
  • Confirmed exoplanet +5
  • Sub-Neptune +5
Total score 24

10 more points to reach Rare.

Badges

  • Confirmed exoplanet · +5
  • Sub-Neptune · +5
  • Multi-planet system · +6
  • Orbits a Sun-like star · +8

Trivia

What it actually is

  • What it is made of. Lighter than Neptune — a puffed-up ball of hydrogen and helium with no surface anywhere on it to stand on.
  • 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 11 you'll want a small backyard telescope.
  • 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. Hopelessly far for any craft humanity can build today.

Getting there

  • Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 10.6 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).

Properties

density gcc
1.55
diameter km
44519.138
discovery facility
Roque de los Muchachos Observatory
discovery method
Radial Velocity
discovery year
2023
dist ly
605.0389
eccentricity
0.19
eq temp k
387
host star teff
5708
insolation
3.9198
mag
11.043
mass earth
12
name
Kepler-10 d
orbital period days
151.06
radius earth
3.49
semi major au
0.5379
sys num planets
3
sys num stars
1

About Kepler-10 d

Kepler-10 d is an uncommon exoplanet. It lies about 605 light-years from Earth, shines at apparent magnitude 11.04, has an equilibrium temperature near 387 K and spans roughly 3.49 Earth radii.

Lighter than Neptune — a puffed-up ball of hydrogen and helium with no surface anywhere on it to stand on.

How to see it

At apparent magnitude 11.04, a small backyard telescope will bring it into view.

Like any astronomical target, Kepler-10 d 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-10 d is an uncommon exoplanet

Kepler-10 d scores 24 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the uncommon tier. Another 10 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 4 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Sub-Neptune, Multi-planet system 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.