Kepler-158

Planetary system · 1028.0 light-years away

Kepler-158 is 1,028 light-years from the Sun. The NASA Exoplanet Archive lists 3 planets around this K star; the first was found in 2014 by transit (Kepler).

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Worth knowing

Kepler-158 d goes round its star every 15.5 hours, 136 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

Spectral typeK
Surface temperature4,623 K
Mass0.655 solar masses
Radius0.624 solar radii
Luminosity0.1751 times the Sun
Apparent magnitude14.743
Ageabout 13.9 billion years
Distance from the Sun1028.0 light-years (315.2 parsecs)
Position (J2000)RA 284.0324°, Dec 39.7815°
ConstellationLyra

Planets (3)

PlanetYearOrbitRadiusMassFound
Kepler-158 d15.5 hours0.0127 AU from Kepler’s law0.43 R⊕0.0472 M⊕ estimatedTransit, 2024
Kepler-158 b16.7 days0.111 AU2.12 R⊕5.14 M⊕ estimatedTransit, 2014
Kepler-158 c28.6 days0.158 AU1.9 R⊕4.27 M⊕ estimatedTransit, 2014

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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