Kepler-390

Planetary system · 1419.7 light-years away

Kepler-390 is 1,420 light-years from the Sun. The NASA Exoplanet Archive lists 2 planets around this 5,166 K star; the first was found in 2014 by transit (Kepler).

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Worth knowing

Kepler-390 b goes round its star every 6.74 days, 13 times as often as Mercury goes round the Sun.

Kepler-390 is one of 2 stars in its system: the other is drawn where the Washington Double Star Catalog measures it on the sky.

The star

Surface temperature5,166 K
Mass0.787 solar masses
Radius0.776 solar radii
Luminosity0.4446 times the Sun
Apparent magnitude14.231
Ageabout 3.24 billion years
Distance from the Sun1419.7 light-years (435.3 parsecs)
Position (J2000)RA 291.6288°, Dec 41.2088°
ConstellationLyra

The other star

Kepler-390 B has no spectral type listed of magnitude 12.6, judged a true companion. In 2016 it was 20.7″ from Kepler-390, at position angle 24° (Washington Double Star Catalog, 19265+4112 DEA 412): 9,010 AU on the sky at this distance. The true distance can only be larger. Its colour is estimated from its brightness.

Planets (2)

PlanetYearOrbitRadiusMassFound
Kepler-390 b6.74 days0.0650 AU0.82 R⊕0.477 M⊕ estimatedTransit, 2014
Kepler-390 c13.1 days0.101 AU0.79 R⊕0.418 M⊕ estimatedTransit, 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.

The planets, compared

For a star of 5,166 K, 0.44 times as bright as the Sun, the habitable zone, where starlight could keep water liquid on a rocky surface, runs from about 0.66 to 1.18 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 1,420 years ago, around AD 610.

Nearest systems to it

Also found by Kepler

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