G 196-3

Planetary system · 71.1 light-years away

G 196-3 is 71.1 light-years from the Sun. The NASA Exoplanet Archive lists 1 planet around this 3,517 K star; the first was found in 2024 by imaging (European Space Agency (ESA) Gaia Satellite).

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Worth knowing

G 196-3 b was photographed directly: it is one of the few exoplanets seen as its own point of light rather than inferred from its star.

Where the archive gives only a period or only an orbit size, the other is worked out from Kepler’s third law with the star’s mass.

The star

Surface temperature3,517 K
Mass0.519782 solar masses
Radius0.522432 solar radii
Luminosity0.03762 times the Sun
Apparent magnitude11.672
Distance from the Sun71.1 light-years (21.8 parsecs)
Position (J2000)RA 151.0885°, Dec 50.3862°
ConstellationUrsa Major

Planets (1)

PlanetYearOrbitRadiusMassFound
G 196-3 b9081.5 years from Kepler’s law350.000 AU12 R⊕ estimated8263.5 M⊕Imaging, 2024

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.

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