NGTS-4

Planetary system · 915.0 light-years away

NGTS-4 is 915 light-years from the Sun. The NASA Exoplanet Archive lists 1 planet around this 5,143 K star; the first was found in 2019 by transit (Next-Generation Transit Survey (NGTS)).

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Worth knowing

NGTS-4 b goes round its star every 32.1 hours, 66 times as often as Mercury goes round the Sun.

The star

Surface temperature5,143 K
Mass0.75 solar masses
Radius0.84 solar radii
Luminosity0.4433 times the Sun
Apparent magnitude13.138
Distance from the Sun915.0 light-years (280.6 parsecs)
Position (J2000)RA 89.5989°, Dec -30.8118°
ConstellationColumba

Planets (1)

PlanetYearOrbitRadiusMassFound
NGTS-4 b32.1 hours0.0190 AU3.18 R⊕20.6 M⊕Transit, 2019

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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