About KIC 5479689 b
KIC 5479689 b is a common exoplanet. It lies about 1,483.8 light-years from Earth, spans roughly 14.2 Earth radii, weighs about 158.91 Earth masses and completes an orbit every 1.7 days.
About 14.2× the width of Earth.
Common exoplanet 22 EP
KIC 5479689 b
RA 299.3255° · Dec 40.6381° · exoplanet
Score breakdown
· 4 badgesCommon 24 pts → Uncommon
- Distant (>1000 ly) +10
- Confirmed exoplanet +5
- Gas giant +4
- Found by Kepler +3
Total score 22
2 more points to reach Uncommon.
Badges
- Confirmed exoplanet · +5
- Gas giant · +4
- 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. ≈ 26.1 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
- Fastest probe ever. ≈ 2.3 million years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
- At 10% light speed. ≈ 14.8 thousand years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
- Distance. 1484 light-years from Earth.
Look-back time
- Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 542.
Saying hello
- Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 2968 years round-trip.
Standing on it
- A year here. A full year lasts just 1.7 Earth days.
By the numbers
- Size. About 14.2× the width of Earth.
- Volume. About 2863 Earths could fit inside it.
- Mass. Roughly 159× Earth's mass — about 0.5 Jupiters.
- Your weight. You'd weigh about 0.8× your Earth weight standing here.
- Density. Less dense than water — drop it in a big enough ocean and it would float.
How we found it
- Discovery. Found by Kepler using the orbital brightness modulation method.
Properties
- density gcc
- 0.305
- discovery facility
- Kepler
- discovery method
- Orbital Brightness Modulation
- dist ly
- 1483.8467
- mass earth
- 158.9142
- name
- KIC 5479689 b
- orbital period days
- 1.7015
- radius earth
- 14.2
- sys num planets
- 1
How to see it
Like any astronomical target, KIC 5479689 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 KIC 5479689 b is a common exoplanet
KIC 5479689 b scores 22 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the common tier. Another 2 points would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 4 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Gas giant, 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.