TYC 8998-760-1 is 309 light-years from the Sun. The NASA Exoplanet Archive lists 2 planets around this K3 IV star; the first was found in 2020 by imaging (Paranal Observatory).
Fly there in 3DTYC 8998-760-1 b was photographed directly: it is one of the few exoplanets seen as its own point of light rather than inferred from its star.
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 | K3 IV |
| Surface temperature | 4,573 K |
| Mass | 1 solar masses |
| Radius | 1.02 solar radii |
| Luminosity | 0.4571 times the Sun |
| Apparent magnitude | 11.124 |
| Age | about 0.017 billion years |
| Distance from the Sun | 308.6 light-years (94.6 parsecs) |
| Position (J2000) | RA 201.3001°, Dec -64.9392° |
| Constellation | Musca |
| Planet | Year | Orbit | Radius | Mass | Found |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TYC 8998-760-1 b disputed | 1764.0 years from Kepler’s law | 146.000 AU | 21.185 R⊕ | 6928.7 M⊕ | Imaging, 2020 |
| TYC 8998-760-1 c | 5724.8 years from Kepler’s law | 320.000 AU | 12.33 R⊕ | 1907 M⊕ | Imaging, 2020 |
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.