Kepler-60 is 3,343 light-years from the Sun. The NASA Exoplanet Archive lists 3 planets around this 5,905 K star; the first was found in 2012 by transit (Kepler).
Fly there in 3DKepler-60 b goes round its star every 7.13 days, 12 times as often as Mercury goes round the Sun.
| Surface temperature | 5,905 K |
| Mass | 1.041 solar masses |
| Radius | 1.257 solar radii |
| Luminosity | 2.339 times the Sun |
| Apparent magnitude | 13.95 |
| Age | about 8.91 billion years |
| Distance from the Sun | 3343.4 light-years (1025.1 parsecs) |
| Position (J2000) | RA 288.9613°, Dec 42.2650° |
| Constellation | Lyra |
| Planet | Year | Orbit | Radius | Mass | Found |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kepler-60 b | 7.13 days | 0.0726 AU | 1.71 R⊕ | 4.19 M⊕ | Transit, 2012 |
| Kepler-60 c | 8.92 days | 0.0842 AU | 1.9 R⊕ | 3.85 M⊕ | Transit, 2012 |
| Kepler-60 d | 11.9 days | 0.102 AU | 1.99 R⊕ | 4.16 M⊕ | Transit, 2012 |
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 5,905 K, 2.3 times as bright as the Sun, the habitable zone, where starlight could keep water liquid on a rocky surface, runs from about 1.44 to 2.54 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 3,343 years ago, around 1300 BC.