G 196-3 is 71.1 light-years from the Sun. The NASA Exoplanet Archive lists 1 planet around this 3,517 K star; the first was found in 2024 by imaging (European Space Agency (ESA) Gaia Satellite).
Fly there in 3DG 196-3 b was photographed directly: it is one of the few exoplanets seen as its own point of light rather than inferred from its star.
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 | 3,517 K |
| Mass | 0.519782 solar masses |
| Radius | 0.522432 solar radii |
| Luminosity | 0.03762 times the Sun |
| Apparent magnitude | 11.672 |
| Distance from the Sun | 71.1 light-years (21.8 parsecs) |
| Position (J2000) | RA 151.0885°, Dec 50.3862° |
| Constellation | Ursa Major |
| Planet | Year | Orbit | Radius | Mass | Found |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G 196-3 b | 9081.5 years from Kepler’s law | 350.000 AU | 12 R⊕ estimated | 8263.5 M⊕ | Imaging, 2024 |
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 3,517 K, 0.038 times as bright as the Sun, the habitable zone, where starlight could keep water liquid on a rocky surface, runs from about 0.20 to 0.39 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 71 years ago, within living memory.