Kepler-163 is 2,250 light-years from the Sun. The NASA Exoplanet Archive lists 2 planets around this 5,776 K star; the first was found in 2014 by transit (Kepler).
Fly there in 3DKepler-163 b goes round its star every 7.81 days, 11 times as often as Mercury goes round the Sun.
| Surface temperature | 5,776 K |
| Mass | 0.882 solar masses |
| Radius | 0.917 solar radii |
| Luminosity | 0.7278 times the Sun |
| Apparent magnitude | 14.467 |
| Age | about 4.27 billion years |
| Distance from the Sun | 2249.9 light-years (689.8 parsecs) |
| Position (J2000) | RA 295.0027°, Dec 46.9873° |
| Constellation | Cygnus |
| Planet | Year | Orbit | Radius | Mass | Found |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kepler-163 b | 7.81 days | 0.0780 AU | 1.05 R⊕ | 1.16 M⊕ estimated | Transit, 2014 |
| Kepler-163 c | 21.3 days | 0.152 AU | 2.26 R⊕ | 5.73 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 5,776 K, 0.73 times as bright as the Sun, the habitable zone, where starlight could keep water liquid on a rocky surface, runs from about 0.81 to 1.43 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 2,250 years ago, around 200 BC.