Kepler-953 is 844 light-years from the Sun. The NASA Exoplanet Archive lists 2 planets around this 5,416 K star; the first was found in 2016 by transit (Kepler).
Fly there in 3DKepler-953 c goes round its star every 9.11 days, 10 times as often as Mercury goes round the Sun.
| Surface temperature | 5,416 K |
| Mass | 0.95 solar masses |
| Radius | 0.99 solar radii |
| Luminosity | 0.7603 times the Sun |
| Apparent magnitude | 11.871 |
| Age | about 8.71 billion years |
| Distance from the Sun | 844.4 light-years (258.9 parsecs) |
| Position (J2000) | RA 288.9716°, Dec 44.6246° |
| Constellation | Cygnus |
| Planet | Year | Orbit | Radius | Mass | Found |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kepler-953 c | 9.11 days | 0.0862 AU | 1.19 R⊕ | 1.81 M⊕ estimated | Transit, 2016 |
| Kepler-953 b | 88.4 days | 0.392 AU | 4.21 R⊕ | 16.5 M⊕ estimated | Transit, 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.
For a star of 5,416 K, 0.76 times as bright as the Sun, the habitable zone, where starlight could keep water liquid on a rocky surface, runs from about 0.85 to 1.51 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 844 years ago, around 1180.