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KOI-1783.02

KOI-1783.02 is a Neptune-like planet orbiting the star KOI-1783. Its year lasts 284 Earth days. It was discovered in 2020 by the Transit method.

Host starKOI-1783
Distance2,824 light-years (865.7 pc)
Orbital period284 days
Orbital radius0.867 AU
Eccentricity0.000
Radius5.44 R⊕ · 0.485 R♃
Mass15 M⊕ · 0.0472 M♃
Density0.51 g/cm³
Surface gravity0.507 × Earth
Equilibrium temperature321 K (48 °C)
Stellar flux received2.49 × Earth
Discovery methodTransit
Discovery year2020
Discovered byKepler

Habitable zone

Inside the inner edge of the habitable zone: it receives 2.49 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 0.7° across: 1.3 times the Sun as we see it from Earth.

In the sky

A telescope is needed to see it: its apparent magnitude is 13.98. Visible from the whole Northern Hemisphere and south to latitude 43° S. North of latitude 43° 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 799 BC. At the speed of Voyager 1, the fastest craft leaving the Solar System (16.9 km per second), the trip would take 50 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.