K2-185 is 875 light-years from the Sun. The NASA Exoplanet Archive lists 2 planets around this 5,788 K star; the first was found in 2018 by transit (K2).
Fly there in 3DK2-185 b goes round its star every 10.6 days, 8 times as often as Mercury goes round the Sun.
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.
| Surface temperature | 5,788 K |
| Mass | 0.96 solar masses |
| Radius | 0.94 solar radii |
| Luminosity | 0.8123 times the Sun |
| Apparent magnitude | 12.235 |
| Distance from the Sun | 875.3 light-years (268.4 parsecs) |
| Position (J2000) | RA 130.2597°, Dec 14.6902° |
| Constellation | Cancer |
| Planet | Year | Orbit | Radius | Mass | Found |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| K2-185 b | 10.6 days | 0.0933 AU from Kepler’s law | 1.15 R⊕ | 1.6 M⊕ estimated | Transit, 2018 |
| K2-185 c | 52.7 days | 0.271 AU from Kepler’s law | 2.39 R⊕ | 6.3 M⊕ estimated | Transit, 2018 |
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.