CoRoT-2 is 696 light-years from the Sun. The NASA Exoplanet Archive lists 1 planet around this 5,625 K star; the first was found in 2008 by transit (CoRoT).
Fly there in 3DCoRoT-2 b goes round its star every 41.8 hours, 50 times as often as Mercury goes round the Sun.
CoRoT-2 is one of 2 stars in its system. The position of the other star is not catalogued, so only CoRoT-2 and its planets are drawn.
| Surface temperature | 5,625 K |
| Mass | 0.96 solar masses |
| Radius | 0.906 solar radii |
| Luminosity | 0.7404 times the Sun |
| Apparent magnitude | 12.516 |
| Age | about 2.7 billion years |
| Distance from the Sun | 695.6 light-years (213.3 parsecs) |
| Position (J2000) | RA 291.7770°, Dec 1.3837° |
| Constellation | Aquila |
| Planet | Year | Orbit | Radius | Mass | Found |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CoRoT-2 b | 41.8 hours | 0.0280 AU | 16.432 R⊕ | 1102.8 M⊕ | Transit, 2008 |
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 5,625 K, 0.74 times as bright as the Sun, the habitable zone, where starlight could keep water liquid on a rocky surface, runs from about 0.83 to 1.46 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 696 years ago, around 1330.