Kepler-22 is 635 light-years from the Sun. The NASA Exoplanet Archive lists 1 planet around this G5 V star; the first was found in 2011 by transit (Kepler).
Fly there in 3DKepler-22 b takes 289.9 days to go round its star once.
| Spectral type | G5 V |
| Surface temperature | 5,596 K |
| Mass | 0.857 solar masses |
| Radius | 0.869 solar radii |
| Luminosity | 0.6453 times the Sun |
| Apparent magnitude | 11.751 |
| Age | about 7 billion years |
| Distance from the Sun | 634.8 light-years (194.6 parsecs) |
| Position (J2000) | RA 289.2172°, Dec 47.8841° |
| Constellation | Cygnus |
| Planet | Year | Orbit | Radius | Mass | Found |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kepler-22 b | 289.9 days | 0.812 AU | 2.1 R⊕ | 9.1 M⊕ | Transit, 2011 |
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 5,596 K, 0.65 times as bright as the Sun, the habitable zone, where starlight could keep water liquid on a rocky surface, runs from about 0.77 to 1.37 AU. Its one known planet 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 635 years ago, around 1390.