Kepler-5 is 2,935 light-years from the Sun. The NASA Exoplanet Archive lists 1 planet around this 6,297 K star; the first was found in 2009 by transit (Kepler).
Fly there in 3DKepler-5 b goes round its star every 3.55 days, 25 times as often as Mercury goes round the Sun.
| Surface temperature | 6,297 K |
| Mass | 1.374 solar masses |
| Radius | 1.793 solar radii |
| Luminosity | 4.492 times the Sun |
| Apparent magnitude | 13.325 |
| Age | about 2.88 billion years |
| Distance from the Sun | 2934.7 light-years (899.8 parsecs) |
| Position (J2000) | RA 299.4070°, Dec 44.0350° |
| Constellation | Cygnus |
| Planet | Year | Orbit | Radius | Mass | Found |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kepler-5 b | 3.55 days | 0.0538 AU | 15.984 R⊕ | 670.94 M⊕ | Transit, 2009 |
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 6,297 K, 4.5 times as bright as the Sun, the habitable zone, where starlight could keep water liquid on a rocky surface, runs from about 1.95 to 3.40 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 2,935 years ago, around 900 BC.