OGLE-2012-BLG-0026L is 13,108 light-years from the Sun. The NASA Exoplanet Archive lists 2 planets around this G5 V star; the first was found in 2012 by microlensing (OGLE).
Fly there in 3DOGLE-2012-BLG-0026L b was found by microlensing: its star briefly magnified the light of a more distant one. That alignment happens once, so the planet cannot be watched again this way.
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.
| Spectral type | G5 V |
| Mass | 1.06 solar masses |
| Apparent magnitude | 20.66 |
| Age | about 5 billion years |
| Distance from the Sun | 13108.0 light-years (4018.9 parsecs) |
| Position (J2000) | RA 263.5779°, Dec -27.1427° |
| Constellation | Ophiuchus |
| Planet | Year | Orbit | Radius | Mass | Found |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OGLE-2012-BLG-0026L b | 7.8 years from Kepler’s law | 4.000 AU | 7.72 R⊕ estimated | 46.1 M⊕ | Microlensing, 2012 |
| OGLE-2012-BLG-0026L c | 10.2 years from Kepler’s law | 4.800 AU | 13.9 R⊕ estimated | 270 M⊕ | Microlensing, 2012 |
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.