Kepler-118 is 1,873 light-years from the Sun. The NASA Exoplanet Archive lists 2 planets around this 5,274 K star; the first was found in 2014 by transit (Kepler).
Fly there in 3DKepler-118 b goes round its star every 7.52 days, 12 times as often as Mercury goes round the Sun.
| Surface temperature | 5,274 K |
| Mass | 0.811 solar masses |
| Radius | 1.094 solar radii |
| Luminosity | 0.4194 times the Sun |
| Apparent magnitude | 14.867 |
| Age | about 13.9 billion years |
| Distance from the Sun | 1872.9 light-years (574.2 parsecs) |
| Position (J2000) | RA 299.2132°, Dec 41.4248° |
| Constellation | Cygnus |
| Planet | Year | Orbit | Radius | Mass | Found |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kepler-118 b | 7.52 days | 0.0730 AU | 1.96 R⊕ | 4.5 M⊕ estimated | Transit, 2014 |
| Kepler-118 c | 20.2 days | 0.141 AU | 7.68 R⊕ | 45.7 M⊕ estimated | Transit, 2014 |
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 5,274 K, 0.42 times as bright as the Sun, the habitable zone, where starlight could keep water liquid on a rocky surface, runs from about 0.63 to 1.13 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 1,873 years ago, around AD 150.