Kepler-93

Planetary system · 312.8 light-years away

Kepler-93 is 313 light-years from the Sun. The NASA Exoplanet Archive lists 2 planets around this 5,669 K star; the first was found in 2014 by transit (Kepler).

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Worth knowing

Kepler-93 b goes round its star every 4.73 days, 19 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 temperature5,669 K
Mass0.911 solar masses
Radius0.919 solar radii
Luminosity0.7841 times the Sun
Apparent magnitude9.996
Ageabout 6.6 billion years
Distance from the Sun312.8 light-years (95.9 parsecs)
Position (J2000)RA 291.4181°, Dec 38.6723°
ConstellationLyra

Planets (2)

PlanetYearOrbitRadiusMassFound
Kepler-93 b4.73 days0.0534 AU1.478 R⊕4.66 M⊕Transit, 2014
Kepler-93 c4.0 years2.442 AU from Kepler’s law—954 M⊕Radial Velocity, 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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