Kepler-260 is 2,046 light-years from the Sun. The NASA Exoplanet Archive lists 2 planets around this 5,250 K star; the first was found in 2014 by transit (Kepler).
Fly there in 3DKepler-260 b goes round its star every 8.19 days, 11 times as often as Mercury goes round the Sun.
| Surface temperature | 5,250 K |
| Mass | 1.013 solar masses |
| Radius | 0.862 solar radii |
| Luminosity | 0.8091 times the Sun |
| Apparent magnitude | 14.253 |
| Age | about 1.15 billion years |
| Distance from the Sun | 2046.2 light-years (627.4 parsecs) |
| Position (J2000) | RA 291.9260°, Dec 38.0141° |
| Constellation | Lyra |
| Planet | Year | Orbit | Radius | Mass | Found |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kepler-260 b | 8.19 days | 0.0750 AU | 2.01 R⊕ | 4.7 M⊕ estimated | Transit, 2014 |
| Kepler-260 c | 76.1 days | 0.332 AU | 1.74 R⊕ | 3.68 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 5,250 K, 0.81 times as bright as the Sun, the habitable zone, where starlight could keep water liquid on a rocky surface, runs from about 0.88 to 1.58 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 2,046 years ago, around 100 BC.