KELT-16 is 1,450 light-years from the Sun. The NASA Exoplanet Archive lists 1 planet around this F7 V star; the first was found in 2017 by transit (KELT).
Fly there in 3DKELT-16 b goes round its star every 23.3 hours, 91 times as often as Mercury goes round the Sun.
KELT-16 is one of 2 stars in its system. The position of the other star is not catalogued, so only KELT-16 and its planets are drawn.
| Spectral type | F7 V |
| Surface temperature | 6,236 K |
| Mass | 1.211 solar masses |
| Radius | 1.36 solar radii |
| Luminosity | 2.52 times the Sun |
| Apparent magnitude | 11.717 |
| Age | about 3.1 billion years |
| Distance from the Sun | 1450.0 light-years (444.6 parsecs) |
| Position (J2000) | RA 314.2685°, Dec 31.6610° |
| Constellation | Cygnus |
| Planet | Year | Orbit | Radius | Mass | Found |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KELT-16 b | 23.3 hours | 0.0204 AU | 15.861 R⊕ | 874.03 M⊕ | Transit, 2017 |
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 6,236 K, 2.5 times as bright as the Sun, the habitable zone, where starlight could keep water liquid on a rocky surface, runs from about 1.47 to 2.56 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 1,450 years ago, around AD 580.