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Epic exoplanet 60 EP

Kepler-62 f

RA 283.2126° · Dec 45.3497° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 5 badges
60 pts · Epic
Epic 78 pts → Anomaly
  • In the habitable zone +30
  • Richly packed system +14
  • Super-Earth +8
  • Confirmed exoplanet +5
  • Found by Kepler +3
Total score 60

18 more points to reach Anomaly.

Badges

  • Confirmed exoplanet · +5
  • In the habitable zone · +30
  • Super-Earth · +8
  • Richly packed system · +14
  • Found by Kepler · +3

Trivia

What makes it special

  • Goldilocks zone. Sits where it's neither too hot nor too cold — liquid water could exist on a surface here.

What it actually is

  • What the zone means. The habitable zone is only about temperature: it is the band where liquid water could survive on a surface. It is a promising address, not evidence of anything living.
  • Crowded system. One of at least 5 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 14 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. Hopelessly far for any craft humanity can build today.

Properties

diameter km
17986.242
discovery facility
Kepler
discovery method
Transit
discovery year
2013
dist ly
981.3186
eccentricity
0
eq temp k
208
habitable zone
yes
host star teff
4925
inclination
89.9
insolation
0.5
mag
13.965
mass earth
35
name
Kepler-62 f
orbital period days
267.291
radius earth
1.41
semi major au
0.718
spect
K2 V
sys num planets
5
sys num stars
1

About Kepler-62 f

Kepler-62 f is an epic exoplanet. It lies about 981.3 light-years from Earth, shines at apparent magnitude 13.96, has spectral type K2 V and has an equilibrium temperature near 208 K.

Sits where it's neither too hot nor too cold — liquid water could exist on a surface here.

How to see it

At apparent magnitude 13.96, it takes a larger telescope or a long-exposure image to capture.

Like any astronomical target, Kepler-62 f 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-62 f is an epic exoplanet

Kepler-62 f scores 60 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the epic tier. Another 18 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 5 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, In the habitable zone, Super-Earth, Richly packed system and Found by Kepler — 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.