Kepler-549

Planetary system · 2071.6 light-years away

Kepler-549 is 2,072 light-years from the Sun. The NASA Exoplanet Archive lists 3 planets around this 5,360 K star; the first was found in 2016 by transit (Kepler).

Fly there in 3D

Worth knowing

Kepler-549 d goes round its star every 24.6 days, 4 times as often as Mercury goes round the Sun.

The star

Surface temperature5,360 K
Mass0.88 solar masses
Radius0.84 solar radii
Luminosity0.4941 times the Sun
Apparent magnitude14.805
Ageabout 4.57 billion years
Distance from the Sun2071.6 light-years (635.2 parsecs)
Position (J2000)RA 283.0229°, Dec 47.2611°
ConstellationLyra

Planets (3)

PlanetYearOrbitRadiusMassFound
Kepler-549 d24.6 days0.158 AU4.2 R⊕16.4 M⊕ estimatedTransit, 2023
Kepler-549 b42.9 days0.232 AU2.57 R⊕11 M⊕Transit, 2016
Kepler-549 c117.0 days0.453 AU2.93 R⊕8.91 M⊕ estimatedTransit, 2016

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 5,360 K, 0.49 times as bright as the Sun, the habitable zone, where starlight could keep water liquid on a rocky surface, runs from about 0.68 to 1.22 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 2,072 years ago, around 100 BC.

Nearest systems to it

Also found by Kepler

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