เคปเลอร์-61
Sign in to saveKepler-61 is a K-type main-sequence star approximately 1,100 light years from Earth in the constellation Cygnus. It is located within the field of vision of the Kepler spacecraft, the satellite that NASA's Kepler Mission used to detect planets that may be transiting their stars. On April 24, 2013 it was announced that the star has an extrasolar planet (a super-Earth) orbiting in the inner edge of the habitable zone, named Kepler-61b.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- eruptive variable star
- Constellation
- Cygnus
- Child body
- Kepler-61 Ab
- Distance from Earth
- 338.24
- Diameter
- 877000
- Radius
- 0.62
- Mass
- 0.64
- Variable-star type
- rotating variable star
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- catalog code
- Kepler-61A
- effective temperature
- 4017
- parallax
- 2.9296
- apparent magnitude
- 15.037025
- surface gravity
- 40380
- spectral class
- K7V
- epoch
- J2000.0
- metallicity
- 0.108
- right ascension component of proper motion
- -2.066
- declination component of proper motion
- 10.687
- right ascension
- 295.30450631421
- declination
- 42.47527332554
- radial velocity
- -51.005199
- stellar rotational velocity
- 3.823
- age estimated by a dating method
- 3.63
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