CoRoT-20
Sign in to saveCoRoT-20 is a star, which is located in the constellation Monoceros at a distance of about 4011 light years from the Earth. The star is orbited by at least two planets.
Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- *
- Distance
- 2,908 light-years
- Coordinates
- RA 97.7204° · Dec 0.2269°
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Wikidata facts
- Constellation
- Monoceros
- Distance from Earth
- 1230
- Radius
- 0.92
- Mass
- 1.14
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- catalog code
- TOI-536
- effective temperature
- 5880
- apparent magnitude
- 14.455448
- parallax
- 1.1216
- epoch
- J2000.0
- metallicity
- 0.14
- surface gravity
- 17000
- luminosity
- 1.0137093
- right ascension component of proper motion
- -0.263
- declination component of proper motion
- -2.797
- spectral class
- G2V
- right ascension
- 97.72042600124001
- declination
- 0.22690512123
- age estimated by a dating method
- 0.1
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CoRoT-20 is a star, which is located in the constellation Monoceros at a distance of about 4011 light years from the Earth. The star is orbited by at least two planets.
== Characteristics == CoRoT-20 is a very young star of 14.66 magnitude by astronomical standards. Its age is estimated at approximately 100 million years. In terms of mass and radius, it is almost identical to the Sun. Its surface temperature is about 5880 kelvins. CoRoT-20 got its name thanks to the space telescope CoRoT, which discovered its two planets.
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