PDS 70 is 369 light-years from the Sun. The NASA Exoplanet Archive lists 2 planets around this K7 star; the first was found in 2018 by imaging (Paranal Observatory).
Fly there in 3DPDS 70 b was photographed directly: it is one of the few exoplanets seen as its own point of light rather than inferred from its star.
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 | K7 |
| Surface temperature | 4,109 K |
| Mass | 0.982 solar masses |
| Radius | 1.26 solar radii |
| Luminosity | 0.35 times the Sun |
| Apparent magnitude | 12.032 |
| Age | about 0.008 billion years |
| Distance from the Sun | 368.8 light-years (113.1 parsecs) |
| Position (J2000) | RA 212.0421°, Dec -41.3980° |
| Constellation | Centaurus |
| Planet | Year | Orbit | Radius | Mass | Found |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PDS 70 b | 119.1 years | 20.800 AU | 21.97 R⊕ | 1017.1 M⊕ | Imaging, 2018 |
| PDS 70 c | 202.7 years from Kepler’s law | 34.300 AU | 22.194 R⊕ | 2383.7 M⊕ | Imaging, 2019 |
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 4,109 K, 0.35 times as bright as the Sun, the habitable zone, where starlight could keep water liquid on a rocky surface, runs from about 0.61 to 1.14 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 369 years ago, around 1660.