Kepler-616

Planetary system · 3084.7 light-years away

Kepler-616 is 3,085 light-years from the Sun. The NASA Exoplanet Archive lists 3 planets around this 5,753 K star; the first was found in 2016 by transit (Kepler).

Fly there in 3D

Worth knowing

Kepler-616 b goes round its star every 10.00 days, 9 times as often as Mercury goes round the Sun.

The star

Surface temperature5,753 K
Mass0.98 solar masses
Radius0.97 solar radii
Luminosity0.7736 times the Sun
Apparent magnitude15.021
Ageabout 3.89 billion years
Distance from the Sun3084.7 light-years (945.8 parsecs)
Position (J2000)RA 294.9891°, Dec 46.8383°
ConstellationCygnus

Planets (3)

PlanetYearOrbitRadiusMassFound
Kepler-616 b10.00 days0.0927 AU2.43 R⊕6.48 M⊕ estimatedTransit, 2016
Kepler-616 d51.1 days0.275 AU2.653 R⊕7.52 M⊕ estimatedTransit, 2021
Kepler-616 c90.4 days0.402 AU3.41 R⊕11.5 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 5,753 K, 0.77 times as bright as the Sun, the habitable zone, where starlight could keep water liquid on a rocky surface, runs from about 0.84 to 1.48 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 3,085 years ago, around 1100 BC.

Nearest systems to it

Also found by Kepler

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