POTS-1 is 2,440 light-years from the Sun. The NASA Exoplanet Archive lists 1 planet around this K5 V star; the first was found in 2013 by transit (La Silla Observatory).
Fly there in 3DPOTS-1 b goes round its star every 3.16 days, 28 times as often as Mercury goes round the Sun.
| Spectral type | K5 V |
| Surface temperature | 4,400 K |
| Mass | 0.695 solar masses |
| Radius | 0.588 solar radii |
| Luminosity | 0.08187 times the Sun |
| Apparent magnitude | 17.9083 |
| Distance from the Sun | 2439.5 light-years (748.0 parsecs) |
| Position (J2000) | RA 203.6087°, Dec -66.5812° |
| Constellation | Musca |
| Planet | Year | Orbit | Radius | Mass | Found |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| POTS-1 b | 3.16 days | 0.0373 AU | 10.548 R⊕ | 734.16 M⊕ | Transit, 2013 |
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 4,400 K, 0.082 times as bright as the Sun, the habitable zone, where starlight could keep water liquid on a rocky surface, runs from about 0.29 to 0.54 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 2,440 years ago, around 400 BC.