Kepler-228 is 5,364 light-years from the Sun. The NASA Exoplanet Archive lists 3 planets around this 6,043 K star; the first was found in 2014 by transit (Kepler).
Fly there in 3DKepler-228 b goes round its star every 2.57 days, 34 times as often as Mercury goes round the Sun.
| Surface temperature | 6,043 K |
| Mass | 1.006 solar masses |
| Radius | 1.014 solar radii |
| Luminosity | 1.292 times the Sun |
| Apparent magnitude | 15.902 |
| Age | about 6.76 billion years |
| Distance from the Sun | 5364.0 light-years (1644.6 parsecs) |
| Position (J2000) | RA 296.2861°, Dec 48.2246° |
| Constellation | Cygnus |
| Planet | Year | Orbit | Radius | Mass | Found |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kepler-228 b | 2.57 days | 0.0380 AU | 1.53 R⊕ | 2.96 M⊕ estimated | Transit, 2014 |
| Kepler-228 c | 4.13 days | 0.0520 AU | 2.7 R⊕ | 7.75 M⊕ estimated | Transit, 2014 |
| Kepler-228 d | 11.1 days | 0.101 AU | 4.04 R⊕ | 15.4 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 6,043 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 1.06 to 1.86 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 5,364 years ago, around 3300 BC.