K2-195

Planetary system · 1027.4 light-years away

K2-195 is 1,027 light-years from the Sun. The NASA Exoplanet Archive lists 2 planets around this 5,713 K star; the first was found in 2018 by transit (K2).

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Worth knowing

K2-195 b goes round its star every 15.9 days, 6 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.

The star

Surface temperature5,713 K
Mass0.94 solar masses
Radius0.99 solar radii
Luminosity0.9728 times the Sun
Apparent magnitude12.524
Distance from the Sun1027.4 light-years (315.0 parsecs)
Position (J2000)RA 199.8315°, Dec -8.5095°
ConstellationVirgo

Planets (2)

PlanetYearOrbitRadiusMassFound
K2-195 c28.5 days0.179 AU from Kepler’s law2.5758 R⊕7.16 M⊕ estimatedTransit, 2018
K2-195 b15.9 days0.121 AU3.13 R⊕9.96 M⊕ estimatedTransit, 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.

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