Kepler-10b [SEP] constellation
result is too hot to support life as we know it. Its existence was confirmed using measurements from the W.M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii.
Nomenclature and history.
Kepler-10, the star that hosts Kepler-10b, is located 560 light-years from our solar system in the Draco constellation. It is approximately the same size as the Sun, with an estimated age of 12 billion years. Planet Kepler-10b was the first planet to be discovered in the orbit of its star. For this, it was designated the star's
Sun.
Characteristics Host star.
K2-141 is an orange main sequence star about 61 parsecs away in K2 Campaign 12, within the constellation Aquarius. It has a radius of 0.681 and a mass of 0.708 . It has a temperature of 4599 K and is between 1.6 and 12.9 billion years old. For comparison, the Sun has a temperature of 5778 K and is 4.5 billion years old.
See also.
- COROT-7b
- Kepler-10b
- Kepler-78b
- WASP-47e