KOI-4777

Planetary system · 561.8 light-years away · also Kepler-1971

KOI-4777 is 562 light-years from the Sun. The NASA Exoplanet Archive lists 1 planet around this 3,515 K star; the first was found in 2022 by transit (Kepler).

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Worth knowing

KOI-4777.01 goes round its star every 9.9 hours, 214 times as often as Mercury goes round the Sun.

The star

Surface temperature3,515 K
Mass0.41 solar masses
Radius0.4 solar radii
Luminosity0.02289 times the Sun
Apparent magnitude16.413
Ageabout 4 billion years
Distance from the Sun561.8 light-years (172.2 parsecs)
Position (J2000)RA 287.2621°, Dec 42.0322°
ConstellationLyra

Planets (1)

PlanetYearOrbitRadiusMassFound
KOI-4777.019.9 hours0.0080 AU0.51 R⊕99.2 M⊕Transit, 2022

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 3,515 K, 0.023 times as bright as the Sun, the habitable zone, where starlight could keep water liquid on a rocky surface, runs from about 0.16 to 0.30 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 562 years ago, around 1460.

Nearest systems to it

Also found by Kepler

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