61 Vir is 27.7 light-years from the Sun. The NASA Exoplanet Archive lists 3 planets around this G5 V star; the first was found in 2009 by radial velocity (Multiple Observatories).
Fly there in 3D61 Vir b goes round its star every 4.21 days, 21 times as often as Mercury goes round the Sun.
| Spectral type | G5 V |
| Surface temperature | 5,577 K |
| Mass | 0.942 solar masses |
| Radius | 0.963 solar radii |
| Luminosity | 0.8035 times the Sun |
| Apparent magnitude | 4.6955 |
| Age | about 8.96 billion years |
| Distance from the Sun | 27.7 light-years (8.5 parsecs) |
| Position (J2000) | RA 199.5965°, Dec -18.3158° |
| Constellation | Virgo |
| Planet | Year | Orbit | Radius | Mass | Found |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 61 Vir b | 4.21 days | 0.0502 AU | 2.11 R⊕ estimated | 5.1 M⊕ minimum | Radial Velocity, 2009 |
| 61 Vir c | 38.0 days | 0.217 AU | 4.46 R⊕ estimated | 18.2 M⊕ minimum | Radial Velocity, 2009 |
| 61 Vir d | 123.0 days | 0.476 AU | 5.11 R⊕ estimated | 22.9 M⊕ minimum | Radial Velocity, 2009 |
Values are the NASA Exoplanet Archive’s composite parameters. A radius marked estimated comes from a mass–radius relation; a mass marked minimum is M sin i. Planet sizes and colours in the 3D view are renderings: none of these worlds has been photographed as more than a point of light.
For a star of 5,577 K, 0.80 times as bright as the Sun, the habitable zone, where starlight could keep water liquid on a rocky surface, runs from about 0.86 to 1.53 AU. None of its known planets orbits inside it. The zone says how much starlight arrives, not whether a planet has water or air. The edges follow Kopparapu et al. (2014), as the 3D view draws them.
The light you see left 28 years ago, within living memory.