Exoplanet · super-Earth
Kepler-1226 b
Kepler-1226 b is a super-Earth orbiting the star Kepler-1226. Its year lasts 17.3 Earth days. It was discovered in 2016 by the Transit method.
| Host star | Kepler-1226 |
|---|---|
| Distance | 3,672 light-years (1,126 pc) |
| Orbital period | 17.3 days |
| Orbital radius | 0.139 AU |
| Eccentricity | 0.000 |
| Radius | 1.45 R⊕ · 0.129 R♃ |
| Mass | 2.7 M⊕ · 0.0085 M♃ (estimated from the radius) |
| Density | 4.87 g/cm³ |
| Equilibrium temperature | 809 K (536 °C) |
| Stellar flux received | 140 × Earth |
| Discovery method | Transit |
| Discovery year | 2016 |
| Discovered by | Kepler |
Habitable zone
Inside the inner edge of the habitable zone: it receives 140 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 3.9° across: 7.3 times the Sun as we see it from Earth.
In the sky
A telescope is needed to see it: its apparent magnitude is 14.32. Visible from the whole Northern Hemisphere and south to latitude 39° S. North of latitude 39° N it never sets. It stands highest at midnight in July, the best time to observe it.
Light's journey
The light you see tonight set out around 1647 BC. At the speed of Voyager 1, the fastest craft leaving the Solar System (16.9 km per second), the trip would take 65 million years.
Data: NASA Exoplanet Archive, PSCompPars. Its look in the simulation is a rendering based on the measured radius, mass and temperature.