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KOI-1599.02

KOI-1599.02 is a super-Earth orbiting the star KOI-1599. Its year lasts 13.6 Earth days. It was discovered in 2019 by the Transit method.

Host starKOI-1599
Distance3,691 light-years (1,132 pc)
Orbital period13.6 days
Orbital radius0.112 AU
Eccentricity0.011
Radius1.9 R⊕ · 0.17 R♃
Mass9 M⊕ · 0.0283 M♃
Density7.21 g/cm³
Surface gravity2.49 × Earth
Equilibrium temperature755 K (482 °C)
Stellar flux received76.8 × Earth
Discovery methodTransit
Discovery year2019
Discovered byKepler

Habitable zone

Inside the inner edge of the habitable zone: it receives 76.8 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 4.6° across: 8.6 times the Sun as we see it from Earth.

In the sky

A telescope is needed to see it: its apparent magnitude is 14.80. Visible from the whole Northern Hemisphere and south to latitude 49° S. North of latitude 49° 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 1666 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.

Planets in the same system

Open in the simulation

Data: NASA Exoplanet Archive, PSCompPars. Its look in the simulation is a rendering based on the measured radius, mass and temperature.