K2-282 is 1,619 light-years from the Sun. The NASA Exoplanet Archive lists 2 planets around this 5,499 K star; the first was found in 2018 by transit (K2).
Fly there in 3DEPIC 220554210 c goes round its star every 16.9 hours, 125 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 | 5,499 K |
| Mass | 0.94 solar masses |
| Radius | 1 solar radii |
| Luminosity | 0.6101 times the Sun |
| Apparent magnitude | 14.21 |
| Distance from the Sun | 1618.7 light-years (496.3 parsecs) |
| Position (J2000) | RA 13.4322°, Dec 7.9953° |
| Constellation | Pisces |
| Planet | Year | Orbit | Radius | Mass | Found |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EPIC 220554210 c | 16.9 hours | 0.0152 AU from Kepler’s law | 1.6 R⊕ | 3.19 M⊕ estimated | Transit, 2019 |
| K2-282 b | 4.17 days | 0.0499 AU | 2.5 R⊕ | 6.8 M⊕ estimated | Transit, 2018 |
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 5,499 K, 0.61 times as bright as the Sun, the habitable zone, where starlight could keep water liquid on a rocky surface, runs from about 0.75 to 1.34 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 1,619 years ago, around AD 410.