Exoplanet · super-Earth
EPIC 201595106 b
EPIC 201595106 b is a super-Earth orbiting the star EPIC 201595106. Its year lasts 0.877 Earth days. It was discovered in 2021 by the Transit method.
| Host star | EPIC 201595106 |
|---|---|
| Distance | 757.0 light-years (232.1 pc) |
| Orbital period | 21.1 hours |
| Orbital radius | 0.0177 AU |
| Eccentricity | 0.000 |
| Radius | 1.57 R⊕ · 0.14 R♃ |
| Mass | 7.67 M⊕ · 0.0241 M♃ |
| Density | 11.1 g/cm³ |
| Surface gravity | 3.13 × Earth |
| Equilibrium temperature | 2,038 K (1,765 °C) |
| Stellar flux received | 2,850 × Earth |
| Discovery method | Transit |
| Discovery year | 2021 |
| Discovered by | K2 |
Habitable zone
Inside the inner edge of the habitable zone: it receives 2,850 times the light the Earth does, too hot to keep liquid water on its surface.
Its star in the sky
In the planet's sky its star is a disc 29° across: 54 times the Sun as we see it from Earth.
In the sky
A telescope is needed to see it: its apparent magnitude is 11.75. Visible from the whole Northern Hemisphere and south to latitude 88° S. It stands highest at midnight in March, the best time to observe it.
Light's journey
The light you see tonight set out around the year 1269. At the speed of Voyager 1, the fastest craft leaving the Solar System (16.9 km per second), the trip would take 13 million years.
Planets in the same system
- K2-360 c 9.8-day orbit · 4.02 R⊕
Data: NASA Exoplanet Archive, PSCompPars. Its look in the simulation is a rendering based on the measured radius, mass and temperature.