Kepler-963 is 2,516 light-years from the Sun. The NASA Exoplanet Archive lists 2 planets around this G star; the first was found in 2016 by transit (Kepler).
Fly there in 3DKepler-963 c goes round its star every 22.1 hours, 96 times as often as Mercury goes round the Sun.
Where the archive gives only a period or only an orbit size, the other is worked out from Kepler’s third law with the star’s mass.
| Spectral type | G |
| Surface temperature | 5,461 K |
| Mass | 0.91 solar masses |
| Radius | 0.87 solar radii |
| Luminosity | 0.5962 times the Sun |
| Apparent magnitude | 15.091 |
| Age | about 4.07 billion years |
| Distance from the Sun | 2516.3 light-years (771.5 parsecs) |
| Position (J2000) | RA 296.7530°, Dec 45.0411° |
| Constellation | Cygnus |
| Planet | Year | Orbit | Radius | Mass | Found |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kepler-963 c | 22.1 hours | 0.0179 AU from Kepler’s law | 0.6 R⊕ | 0.156 M⊕ estimated | Transit, 2024 |
| Kepler-963 b | 9.98 days | 0.0849 AU | 2.66 R⊕ | 7.56 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 5,461 K, 0.60 times as bright as the Sun, the habitable zone, where starlight could keep water liquid on a rocky surface, runs from about 0.75 to 1.33 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 2,516 years ago, around 500 BC.