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Epic exoplanet 50 EP

Kepler-167 c

RA 292.6585° · Dec 38.3456° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 7 badges
50 pts · Epic
Epic 78 pts → Anomaly
  • Two suns in its sky +12
  • Tidally locked +10
  • Super-Earth +8
  • Distant (over 1,000 light-years) +6
  • Multi-planet system +6
  • Confirmed exoplanet +5
  • Found by Kepler +3
Total score 50

28 more points to reach Anomaly.

Badges

  • Confirmed exoplanet · +5
  • Distant (over 1,000 light-years) · +6
  • Super-Earth · +8
  • Tidally locked · +10
  • Multi-planet system · +6
  • Found by Kepler · +3
  • Two suns in its sky · +12

Trivia

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.
  • Crowded system. One of at least 4 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 14.3 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
4.03
diameter km
21353.8788
discovery facility
Kepler
discovery method
Transit
discovery year
2014
dist ly
1115.1535
eccentricity
0
eq temp k
771
host star teff
4884
inclination
88.48
insolation
61.175
mag
14.284
mass earth
3.44
multi star system
yes
name
Kepler-167 c
orbital period days
7.4061
radius earth
1.674
semi major au
0.0684
spect
K4
sys num planets
4
sys num stars
2
tidally locked
yes
tidally locked inferred
yes

About Kepler-167 c

Kepler-167 c is an epic exoplanet. It lies about 1,115.2 light-years from Earth, shines at apparent magnitude 14.28, has spectral type K4 and has an equilibrium temperature near 771 K.

It orbits closer to its star than Mercury does to the Sun, completing a lap in less time than Mercury takes.

How to see it

At apparent magnitude 14.28, it takes a larger telescope or a long-exposure image to capture.

Like any astronomical target, Kepler-167 c 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-167 c is an epic exoplanet

Kepler-167 c scores 50 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the epic tier. Another 28 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 7 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Distant (over 1,000 light-years), Super-Earth, Tidally locked, Multi-planet system, 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.