Kepler-142 is 1,790 light-years from the Sun. The NASA Exoplanet Archive lists 3 planets around this 5,790 K star; the first was found in 2014 by transit (Kepler).
Fly there in 3DKepler-142 b goes round its star every 2.02 days, 43 times as often as Mercury goes round the Sun.
| Surface temperature | 5,790 K |
| Mass | 0.978 solar masses |
| Radius | 1.269 solar radii |
| Luminosity | 1.28 times the Sun |
| Apparent magnitude | 13.277 |
| Age | about 7.59 billion years |
| Distance from the Sun | 1789.6 light-years (548.7 parsecs) |
| Position (J2000) | RA 295.1190°, Dec 48.4814° |
| Constellation | Cygnus |
| Planet | Year | Orbit | Radius | Mass | Found |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kepler-142 b | 2.02 days | 0.0320 AU | 1.99 R⊕ | 4.62 M⊕ estimated | Transit, 2014 |
| Kepler-142 c | 4.76 days | 0.0570 AU | 2.86 R⊕ | 8.55 M⊕ estimated | Transit, 2014 |
| Kepler-142 d | 41.8 days | 0.242 AU | 2.16 R⊕ | 5.31 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 5,790 K, 1.3 times as bright as the Sun, the habitable zone, where starlight could keep water liquid on a rocky surface, runs from about 1.07 to 1.89 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 1,790 years ago, around AD 240.