The Kepler-957 system contains 1 exoplanet. It is located 2689.77 light years away from the solar system.
Mass | 0.81 solar masses |
Radius | 0.75 solar radiae |
Temperature | 4963 kelvin |
Stellar Metallicity | -0.01 decimal exponent |
Age | 2.75 billion years |
At more than 10 Earth masses, Kepler-957 b is an ice giant, a planet that is made up mostly of volatiles like water, amonia and methane, and enveloped by a dense hydrogen and helium atmosphere, much like Uranus and Neptune.
Mass | 25.900 Earth masses |
Density | 0.855 grams per cubic centimeter |
Radius | 5.500 Earth radiae |
Semi-major Axis | 0.0559 AU |
Eccentricity | 0 |
Orbital Period | 5.907 days |
Discovery Method | Transit |
Discovery Facility | Kepler |
Discovery Telescope | 0.95 m Kepler Telescope |
Discovery Instrument | Kepler CCD Array |
Discovery Date | 2016-05 |
Reference | Morton et al. 2016 |