Exoplanet · gas giant
Kepler-93 c
Kepler-93 c is a gas giant orbiting the star Kepler-93. Its year lasts 1,460 Earth days. It was discovered in 2014 by the Radial Velocity method.
| Host star | Kepler-93 |
|---|---|
| Distance | 312.8 light-years (95.9 pc) |
| Orbital period | 4 years |
| Mass | 954 M⊕ · 3 M♃ |
| Discovery method | Radial Velocity |
| Discovery year | 2014 |
| Discovered by | W. M. Keck Observatory |
In the sky
A telescope is needed to see it: its apparent magnitude is 10.08. Visible from the whole Northern Hemisphere and south to latitude 51° S. North of latitude 51° 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 the year 1713. At the speed of Voyager 1, the fastest craft leaving the Solar System (16.9 km per second), the trip would take 5.5 million years.
Planets in the same system
- Kepler-93 b 4.73-day orbit · 1.48 R⊕
Data: NASA Exoplanet Archive, PSCompPars. Its look in the simulation is a rendering based on the measured radius, mass and temperature.