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Epic exoplanet 50 EP

KOI-1843.03

RA 285.0131° · Dec 40.2210° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 6 badges
50 pts · Epic
Epic 68 pts → Anomaly
  • Lava world +14
  • Ultra-short period +14
  • Blasted by starlight +8
  • Multi-planet system +6
  • Confirmed exoplanet +5
  • Found by Kepler +3
Total score 50

18 more points to reach Anomaly.

Badges

  • Confirmed exoplanet · +5
  • Lava world · +14
  • Ultra-short period · +14
  • Multi-planet system · +6
  • Blasted by starlight · +8
  • Found by Kepler · +3

Trivia

What makes it special

  • Lava world. Its surface is likely an ocean of molten rock.

Could we get there?

  • Verdict. Hopelessly far for any craft humanity can build today.

Getting there

  • Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 7.7 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
  • Fastest probe ever. ≈ 684 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
  • At 10% light speed. ≈ 4381 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
  • Distance. 438 light-years from Earth.

Look-back time

  • Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 1588.

Saying hello

  • Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 876 years round-trip.

Standing on it

  • A year here. A full year lasts just 0.2 Earth days.

By the numbers

  • Size. Around 61% of Earth's width.
  • Mass. About 8× the mass of Earth.
  • Your weight. You'd weigh about 21.5× your Earth weight standing here.
  • Temperature. Around 1381°C — hotter than a self-cleaning oven.

How we found it

  • Discovery. Found by Kepler using the transit method.

Cosmic context

  • Crowded system. One of at least 2 planets orbiting its star.

Properties

discovery facility
Kepler
discovery method
Transit
dist ly
438.0634
eq temp k
1654
insolation
1769.292
mass earth
8
name
KOI-1843.03
orbital period days
0.1769
radius earth
0.61
sys num planets
2

About KOI-1843.03

KOI-1843.03 is an epic exoplanet. It lies about 438.1 light-years from Earth, has an equilibrium temperature near 1,654 K, spans roughly 0.61 Earth radii and weighs about 8 Earth masses.

Its surface is likely an ocean of molten rock.

How to see it

Like any astronomical target, KOI-1843.03 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-1843.03 is an epic exoplanet

KOI-1843.03 scores 50 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the epic tier. Another 18 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 6 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Lava world, Ultra-short period, Multi-planet system, Blasted by starlight 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.

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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.