EPIC 212624936 is 1,833 light-years from the Sun. The NASA Exoplanet Archive lists 2 planets around this 5,765 K star; the first was found in 2021 by transit (K2).
Fly there in 3DEPIC 212624936 b goes round its star every 13.9 hours, 152 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 | 5,765 K |
| Mass | 1 solar masses |
| Radius | 0.93 solar radii |
| Luminosity | 0.7521 times the Sun |
| Apparent magnitude | 13.976 |
| Distance from the Sun | 1832.8 light-years (561.9 parsecs) |
| Position (J2000) | RA 210.6376°, Dec -10.0237° |
| Constellation | Virgo |
| Planet | Year | Orbit | Radius | Mass | Found |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EPIC 212624936 b | 13.9 hours | 0.0136 AU from Kepler’s law | 1.2 R⊕ | 1.87 M⊕ estimated | Transit, 2021 |
| EPIC 212624936 c | 11.8 days | 0.102 AU from Kepler’s law | 2.3 R⊕ | 5.9 M⊕ estimated | Transit, 2021 |
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 5,765 K, 0.75 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 1,833 years ago, around AD 190.