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Sign in to saveCoRoT-8 is a star in the constellation Aquila at a distance of about 1055 light-years away. At least one planet revolves around the star.
Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- *
- Spectral type
- K1V
- Distance
- 1,055 light-years
- Redshift
- z = -0.00012524213930931172
- Coordinates
- RA 291.5885° · Dec 1.4264°
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Wikidata facts
- Distance from Earth
- 325.034
- Radius
- 0.77
- Mass
- 0.88
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- catalog code
- TIC 391880567
- luminosity
- 0.21647783
- effective temperature
- 5080
- parallax
- 3.0903
- apparent magnitude
- 14.20456
- spectral class
- K1V
- metallicity
- 0.3
- radial velocity
- -37.549
- surface gravity
- 26300
- right ascension component of proper motion
- 13.683
- declination component of proper motion
- -32.743
- right ascension
- 291.58851065515
- declination
- 1.42643819459
- age estimated by a dating method
- 3
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CoRoT-8 is a star in the constellation Aquila at a distance of about 1055 light-years away. At least one planet revolves around the star.
CoRoT-8 is an orange dwarf which has 0.88 solar masses and 0.77 solar radius. By astronomical standards, this is already a rather young star compared to the Sun: its age is about 3 billion years. It got its name in honor of the CoRoT space telescope, with the help of which its planetary companion was discovered.
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