Kepler-974 is 438 light-years from the Sun. The NASA Exoplanet Archive lists 2 planets around this 3,687 K star; the first was found in 2013 by transit (Kepler).
Fly there in 3DKOI-1843.03 goes round its star every 4.2 hours, 497 times as often as Mercury goes round the Sun.
| Surface temperature | 3,687 K |
| Mass | 0.52 solar masses |
| Radius | 0.5 solar radii |
| Luminosity | 0.04423 times the Sun |
| Apparent magnitude | 15.295 |
| Age | about 4.37 billion years |
| Distance from the Sun | 438.1 light-years (134.3 parsecs) |
| Position (J2000) | RA 285.0131°, Dec 40.2210° |
| Constellation | Lyra |
| Planet | Year | Orbit | Radius | Mass | Found |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KOI-1843.03 | 4.2 hours | 0.0050 AU | 0.61 R⊕ | 8 M⊕ | Transit, 2013 |
| Kepler-974 b | 4.19 days | 0.0419 AU | 1.57 R⊕ | 3.09 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 3,687 K, 0.044 times as bright as the Sun, the habitable zone, where starlight could keep water liquid on a rocky surface, runs from about 0.22 to 0.42 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 438 years ago, around 1590.