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Uncommon exoplanet 27 EP

K2-381 b

RA 288.0268° · Dec -21.0076° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 3 badges
27 pts · Uncommon
Uncommon 34 pts → Rare
  • Earth-sized +16
  • Multi-planet system +6
  • Confirmed exoplanet +5
Total score 27

7 more points to reach Rare.

Badges

  • Confirmed exoplanet · +5
  • Earth-sized · +16
  • Multi-planet system · +6

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. Denser than Earth — a solid world of rock and iron, with no meaningful atmosphere to speak of by mass.
  • 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 12.9 it is far too faint for the eye: this one belongs to cameras and long exposures.
  • Southern sky. It rides the southern half of the sky — an easier target the further south you are.
  • Best time of year. It stands highest in the middle of the night around July — that's when to go looking.

Properties

density gcc
5.57
diameter km
13712.915
discovery facility
K2
discovery method
Transit
discovery year
2022
dist ly
475.2126
host star teff
4473
inclination
88.8625
mag
12.883
mass earth
1.26
name
K2-381 b
orbital period days
7.9389
radius earth
1.075
sys num planets
3
sys num stars
1

About K2-381 b

K2-381 b is an uncommon exoplanet. It lies about 475.2 light-years from Earth, shines at apparent magnitude 12.88, spans roughly 1.07 Earth radii and weighs about 1.26 Earth masses.

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 12.88, it takes a larger telescope or a long-exposure image to capture.

Like any astronomical target, K2-381 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 K2-381 b is an uncommon exoplanet

K2-381 b scores 27 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the uncommon tier. Another 7 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 3 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Earth-sized and Multi-planet system — 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.