KOI-256
Sign in to saveKOI-256 is a double star located in the constellation Draco approximately from Earth. While observations by the Kepler spacecraft suggested the system contained a gas giant exoplanet orbiting a red dwarf, later studies determined that KOI-256 was a binary system composed of the red dwarf orbiting a white dwarf.
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- Constellation
- Draco
- Distance from Earth
- 177.478
- Radius
- 0.42
- Mass
- 0.43
- Variable-star type
- eclipsing binary star
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- KOI-256
- effective temperature
- 3450
- parallax
- 5.6681
- apparent magnitude
- 15.331465
- spectral class
- M3V
- epoch
- J2000.0
- catalog code
- KOI-256
- metallicity
- 0.31
- surface gravity
- 14800
- right ascension component of proper motion
- -6.796
- declination component of proper motion
- -14.373
- right ascension
- 285.18510369423
- declination
- 49.56534692185
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KOI-256 is a double star located in the constellation Draco approximately from Earth. While observations by the Kepler spacecraft suggested the system contained a gas giant exoplanet orbiting a red dwarf, later studies determined that KOI-256 was a binary system composed of the red dwarf orbiting a white dwarf.
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