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Uncommon exoplanet 32 EP

Kepler-731 b

RA 296.3932° · Dec 45.5685° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 5 badges
32 pts · Uncommon
Uncommon 33 pts → Rare
  • Hot Jupiter +10
  • Distant (>1000 ly) +10
  • Confirmed exoplanet +5
  • Gas giant +4
  • Found by Kepler +3
Total score 32

1 more point to reach Rare.

Badges

  • Confirmed exoplanet · +5
  • Gas giant · +4
  • Hot Jupiter · +10
  • Found by Kepler · +3
  • Distant (>1000 ly) · +10

Trivia

Could we get there?

  • Verdict. Impossible with our current technology — and the next millennium of it.

Getting there

  • Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 72.1 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
  • Fastest probe ever. ≈ 6.4 million years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
  • At 10% light speed. ≈ 41 thousand years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
  • Distance. 4100 light-years from Earth.

Look-back time

  • Look-back time. Its light left before the last ice age ended.

Saying hello

  • Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 8201 years round-trip.

Standing on it

  • A year here. A full year lasts just 3.9 Earth days.

By the numbers

  • Size. About 13.9× the width of Earth.
  • Volume. About 2674 Earths could fit inside it.
  • Temperature. Around 939°C — hotter than a self-cleaning oven.

How we found it

  • Discovery. Found by Kepler using the transit method.

Properties

discovery facility
Kepler
discovery method
Transit
dist ly
4100.3028
eccentricity
0
eq temp k
1212
insolation
456.703
name
Kepler-731 b
orbital period days
3.8556
radius earth
13.88
sys num planets
1

About Kepler-731 b

Kepler-731 b is an uncommon exoplanet. It lies about 4,100.3 light-years from Earth, has an equilibrium temperature near 1,212 K, spans roughly 13.88 Earth radii and completes an orbit every 3.86 days.

About 13.9× the width of Earth.

How to see it

Like any astronomical target, Kepler-731 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 Kepler-731 b is an uncommon exoplanet

Kepler-731 b scores 32 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the uncommon tier. Another 1 point would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 5 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Gas giant, Hot Jupiter, Found by Kepler and Distant (>1000 ly) — 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.

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Sky imagery and survey data courtesy of Aladin Lite & CDS, Strasbourg. Object data from the NASA Exoplanet Archive, JPL Small-Body Database, and the ATNF Pulsar Catalogue.