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Uncommon exoplanet 30 EP

Kepler-54 c

RA 294.7739° · Dec 43.0562° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 4 badges
30 pts · Uncommon
Uncommon 34 pts → Rare
  • Earth-sized +16
  • Multi-planet system +6
  • Confirmed exoplanet +5
  • Found by Kepler +3
Total score 30

4 more points to reach Rare.

Badges

  • Confirmed exoplanet · +5
  • Earth-sized · +16
  • Multi-planet system · +6
  • Found by Kepler · +3

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. Too light to be solid rock and too heavy to be all gas: most likely a deep global ocean or a thick steamy envelope over a rocky core.
  • 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 16.3 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.

Properties

density gcc
2.3764
diameter km
15690.126
discovery facility
Kepler
discovery method
Transit
discovery year
2012
dist ly
886.1691
eccentricity
0
eq temp k
395
host star teff
3705
inclination
89.96
insolation
3.07
mag
16.282
mass earth
0.7
name
Kepler-54 c
orbital period days
12.0717
radius earth
1.23
semi major au
0.0809
spect
M1 V
sys num planets
3
sys num stars
1

About Kepler-54 c

Kepler-54 c is an uncommon exoplanet. It lies about 886.2 light-years from Earth, shines at apparent magnitude 16.28, has spectral type M1 V and has an equilibrium temperature near 395 K.

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

Like any astronomical target, Kepler-54 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-54 c is an uncommon exoplanet

Kepler-54 c scores 30 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the uncommon tier. Another 4 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 4 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Earth-sized, Multi-planet 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.