Exoplanet · gas giant
KPS-1 b
KPS-1 b is a gas giant orbiting the star KPS-1. Its year lasts 1.71 Earth days. It was discovered in 2018 by the Transit method.
| Host star | KPS-1 |
|---|---|
| Distance | 856.8 light-years (262.7 pc) |
| Orbital period | 41 hours |
| Orbital radius | 0.0269 AU |
| Eccentricity | 0.000 |
| Radius | 11.5 R⊕ · 1.03 R♃ |
| Mass | 346 M⊕ · 1.09 M♃ |
| Density | 1.31 g/cm³ |
| Surface gravity | 2.6 × Earth |
| Equilibrium temperature | 1,459 K (1,186 °C) |
| Stellar flux received | 729 × Earth |
| Discovery method | Transit |
| Discovery year | 2018 |
| Discovered by | Acton Sky Portal Observatory |
Habitable zone
Inside the inner edge of the habitable zone: it receives 729 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 18° across: 33 times the Sun as we see it from Earth.
In the sky
A telescope is needed to see it: its apparent magnitude is 12.97. Visible from the whole Northern Hemisphere and south to latitude 25° S. North of latitude 25° N it never sets. 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 1169. At the speed of Voyager 1, the fastest craft leaving the Solar System (16.9 km per second), the trip would take 15 million years.
Data: NASA Exoplanet Archive, PSCompPars. Its look in the simulation is a rendering based on the measured radius, mass and temperature.