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Uncommon exoplanet 23 EP

KOI-7368 b

RA 293.9476° · Dec 48.0653° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 4 badges
23 pts · Uncommon
Uncommon 34 pts → Rare
  • Tidally locked +10
  • Confirmed exoplanet +5
  • Sub-Neptune +5
  • Found by Kepler +3
Total score 23

11 more points to reach Rare.

Badges

  • Confirmed exoplanet · +5
  • Sub-Neptune · +5
  • Tidally locked · +10
  • Found by Kepler · +3

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. 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.

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 13 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.

Getting there

  • Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 15.2 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).

Properties

density gcc
2.79
diameter km
28318.764
discovery facility
Kepler
discovery method
Transit
discovery year
2022
dist ly
864.2971
eccentricity
0
eq temp k
805
host star teff
5241
inclination
71.62
insolation
99.24
mag
12.969
mass earth
5.56
name
KOI-7368 b
orbital period days
6.843
radius earth
2.22
semi major au
0.0678
sys num planets
1
sys num stars
1
tidally locked
yes
tidally locked inferred
yes

About KOI-7368 b

KOI-7368 b is an uncommon exoplanet. It lies about 864.3 light-years from Earth, shines at apparent magnitude 12.97, has an equilibrium temperature near 805 K and spans roughly 2.22 Earth radii.

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

Like any astronomical target, KOI-7368 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 KOI-7368 b is an uncommon exoplanet

KOI-7368 b scores 23 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the uncommon tier. Another 11 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 4 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Sub-Neptune, Tidally locked 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.