Kepler-63 is 633 light-years from the Sun. The NASA Exoplanet Archive lists 1 planet around this G5 star; the first was found in 2013 by transit (Kepler).
Fly there in 3DKepler-63 b goes round its star every 9.43 days, 9 times as often as Mercury goes round the Sun.
| Spectral type | G5 |
| Surface temperature | 5,576 K |
| Mass | 0.984 solar masses |
| Radius | 0.901 solar radii |
| Luminosity | 0.6966 times the Sun |
| Apparent magnitude | 12.02 |
| Age | about 0.21 billion years |
| Distance from the Sun | 632.9 light-years (194.0 parsecs) |
| Position (J2000) | RA 289.2263°, Dec 49.5483° |
| Constellation | Cygnus |
| Planet | Year | Orbit | Radius | Mass | Found |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kepler-63 b | 9.43 days | 0.0800 AU | 6.11 R⊕ | 120 M⊕ | Transit, 2013 |
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 5,576 K, 0.70 times as bright as the Sun, the habitable zone, where starlight could keep water liquid on a rocky surface, runs from about 0.80 to 1.42 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 633 years ago, around 1390.