EPIC 248847494 b
A confirmed exoplanet orbiting EPIC 248847494.
Compared with Earth
- Size
- About 12 times Earth's width.
- Mass
- About 4,132 times Earth's mass.
- Temperature
- About -90 °C (-130 °F) from starlight alone, against -18 °C (-1 °F) for Earth measured the same way.
- Starlight
- About 19% of the starlight Earth gets from the Sun.
- Year
- A year here lasts about 10 Earth years.
Planet
- Radius
- 12.44 × Earth
- Mass
- 4,132 × Earth
- Density
- Unknown
- Equilibrium temperature
- 183 K
- Starlight received
- 0.19 × Earth
- Orbital period
- 3,650 days
- Average distance from its star
- 4.5 AU
Star
- Host star
- EPIC 248847494
- Spectral class
- K — orange dwarf
- Surface temperature
- 4,898 K
- Radius
- 2.7 × Sun
- Mass
- 0.9 × Sun
- Age
- Unknown
System
- Distance from Earth
- 1,800 light-years (551.9 parsecs)
- Stars in system
- 1
- Known planets
- 1
Discovery
- Year
- 2018
- Method
- Transit
- Facility
- K2
Data from the NASA Exoplanet Archive, synced October 14, 2026.