Kepler-70
Sign in to saveKepler-70, also known as KIC 5807616 and KOI-55, is a star about away in the constellation Cygnus, with an apparent visual magnitude of 14.87. This is too faint to be seen with the naked eye; viewing it requires a telescope with an aperture of or more.
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- Distance from Earth
- 1180
- Radius
- 0.2
- Mass
- 0.5
- Image
- Kepler-70 system.png
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- spectral class
- B
- catalog code
- TIC 184427882
- apparent magnitude
- 14.891772
- right ascension component of proper motion
- 7.217
- parallax
- 0.9086
- effective temperature
- 27730
- declination component of proper motion
- -3.148
- right ascension
- 296.35614403632
- declination
- 41.09274506904
- age estimated by a dating method
- 0.0184
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Kepler-70, also known as KIC 5807616 and KOI-55, is a star about away in the constellation Cygnus, with an apparent visual magnitude of 14.87. This is too faint to be seen with the naked eye; viewing it requires a telescope with an aperture of or more.
A subdwarf B star, Kepler-70 passed through the red giant stage some 18.4 million years ago. In its present-day state, it is fusing helium in its core. Once it runs out of helium it will contract to form a white dwarf. It has a relatively small radius of about 0.2 times the Sun's radius; white dwarfs are generally much smaller. The star was thought to be host to a planetary system with two planets, although later research indicates that this is not in fact the case.