EPIC 206042996 is 1,474 light-years from the Sun. The NASA Exoplanet Archive lists 2 planets around this 4,114 K star; the first was found in 2019 by transit (K2).
Fly there in 3DEPIC 206042996 c goes round its star every 8.5 hours, 248 times as often as Mercury goes round the Sun.
Where the archive gives only a period or only an orbit size, the other is worked out from Kepler’s third law with the star’s mass.
| Surface temperature | 4,114 K |
| Mass | 0.565 solar masses |
| Radius | 0.5 solar radii |
| Luminosity | 0.1047 times the Sun |
| Apparent magnitude | 16.59 |
| Distance from the Sun | 1473.5 light-years (451.8 parsecs) |
| Position (J2000) | RA 337.5136°, Dec -13.6101° |
| Constellation | Aquarius |
| Planet | Year | Orbit | Radius | Mass | Found |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EPIC 206042996 c | 8.5 hours | 0.0081 AU from Kepler’s law | 1.2 R⊕ | 1.87 M⊕ estimated | Transit, 2021 |
| EPIC 206042996 b | 5.30 days | 0.0492 AU from Kepler’s law | 1.7 R⊕ | 3.53 M⊕ estimated | Transit, 2019 |
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 4,114 K, 0.10 times as bright as the Sun, the habitable zone, where starlight could keep water liquid on a rocky surface, runs from about 0.33 to 0.62 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 1,474 years ago, around AD 550.