TOI-4201

Planetary system · 616.5 light-years away

TOI-4201 is 616 light-years from the Sun. The NASA Exoplanet Archive lists 1 planet around this M1.0+/-0.5 star; the first was found in 2023 by transit (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)).

Fly there in 3D

Worth knowing

TOI-4201 b goes round its star every 3.58 days, 25 times as often as Mercury goes round the Sun.

The star

Spectral typeM1.0+/-0.5
Surface temperature3,794 K
Mass0.61 solar masses
Radius0.63 solar radii
Luminosity0.076 times the Sun
Apparent magnitude15.163
Ageabout 1.4 billion years
Distance from the Sun616.5 light-years (189.0 parsecs)
Position (J2000)RA 90.4747°, Dec -13.4614°
ConstellationLepus

Planets (1)

PlanetYearOrbitRadiusMassFound
TOI-4201 b3.58 days0.0400 AU13.675 R⊕788.21 M⊕Transit, 2023

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 3,794 K, 0.076 times as bright as the Sun, the habitable zone, where starlight could keep water liquid on a rocky surface, runs from about 0.28 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 616 years ago, around 1410.

Nearest systems to it

Also found by Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)

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