24 Sex is 235 light-years from the Sun. The NASA Exoplanet Archive lists 2 planets around this K0 IV star; the first was found in 2010 by radial velocity (Lick Observatory).
Fly there in 3D24 Sex c takes 883.0 days to go round its star once.
| Spectral type | K0 IV |
| Surface temperature | 5,098 K |
| Mass | 1.54 solar masses |
| Radius | 4.9 solar radii |
| Luminosity | 14.59 times the Sun |
| Apparent magnitude | 6.4535 |
| Age | about 2.7 billion years |
| Distance from the Sun | 235.1 light-years (72.1 parsecs) |
| Position (J2000) | RA 155.8685°, Dec -0.9024° |
| Constellation | Sextans |
| Planet | Year | Orbit | Radius | Mass | Found |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 Sex b | 452.8 days | 1.333 AU | 13.4 R⊕ estimated | 632.46 M⊕ minimum | Radial Velocity, 2010 |
| 24 Sex c | 883.0 days | 2.080 AU | 13.9 R⊕ estimated | 273.32 M⊕ minimum | Radial Velocity, 2010 |
Values are the NASA Exoplanet Archive’s composite parameters. A radius marked estimated comes from a mass–radius relation; a mass marked minimum is M sin i. Planet sizes and colours in the 3D view are renderings: none of these worlds has been photographed as more than a point of light.