GSC 06214-00210

Planetary system · 353.9 light-years away

GSC 06214-00210 is 354 light-years from the Sun. The NASA Exoplanet Archive lists 1 planet around this K7 star; the first was found in 2010 by imaging (Palomar Observatory).

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GSC 06214-00210 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

Spectral typeK7
Surface temperature4,200 K
Mass0.9 solar masses
Radius0.90484 solar radii
Luminosity0.3802 times the Sun
Apparent magnitude12.416
Ageabout 0.005 billion years
Distance from the Sun353.9 light-years (108.5 parsecs)
Position (J2000)RA 245.4777°, Dec -20.7193°
ConstellationScorpius

Planets (1)

PlanetYearOrbitRadiusMassFound
GSC 06214-00210 b6034.2 years from Kepler’s law320.000 AU20.176 R⊕5000 M⊕Imaging, 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.

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