NGTS-2 is 1,162 light-years from the Sun. The NASA Exoplanet Archive lists 1 planet around this F5 V star; the first was found in 2018 by transit (Next-Generation Transit Survey (NGTS)).
Fly there in 3DNGTS-2 b goes round its star every 4.51 days, 20 times as often as Mercury goes round the Sun.
| Spectral type | F5 V |
| Surface temperature | 6,478 K |
| Mass | 1.64 solar masses |
| Radius | 1.702 solar radii |
| Luminosity | 4.273 times the Sun |
| Apparent magnitude | 10.789 |
| Age | about 2.17 billion years |
| Distance from the Sun | 1162.4 light-years (356.4 parsecs) |
| Position (J2000) | RA 215.1228°, Dec -31.2021° |
| Constellation | Centaurus |
| Planet | Year | Orbit | Radius | Mass | Found |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NGTS-2 b | 4.51 days | 0.0630 AU | 17.878 R⊕ | 235.19 M⊕ | Transit, 2018 |
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 6,478 K, 4.3 times as bright as the Sun, the habitable zone, where starlight could keep water liquid on a rocky surface, runs from about 1.88 to 3.27 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 1,162 years ago, around AD 860.