Star system, 88 light-years
AF Leporis and its one planet
AF Lep b is an exoplanet about 13 times Earth's width (a size estimated from its mass), about 1.2 times Jupiter's, 88 light-years away, orbiting farther from its star than the habitable zone we compute for it.
AF Leporis is a star of spectral type F8, 88 light-years from us, with one known planet.
Drawn at the system's own scale, every orbit from the Archive's numbers.
What is measured, what is computed, what is imagined.
measured The period, and where the table says so the width and the mass, by the method named in each section.
computed Anything marked computed: the size of an orbit where Kepler's third law corrects the table, the temperature of a bare ball at that distance, the starlight received, and the habitable zone.
imagined The picture is an artist's impression. Nobody has seen the surface of a planet of another star: its colour, clouds and land are not known, and the share picture says so in its corner.
AF Lep b
AF Lep b is an exoplanet about 13 times Earth's width (a size estimated from its mass), about 1.2 times Jupiter's, 88 light-years away, orbiting farther from its star than the habitable zone we compute for it.
- Width
- 13 × Earth's estimated
- Mass
- 1,147 times Earth's measured
- One year
- 8,905 days measured
- Distance from its star
- 8.996 au from the Archive
- Temperature of a bare ball there
- 100 K computed, not measured
- Starlight, against Earth's
- 0.0241 × computed
It was photographed directly, a faint dot beside the glare of its star in 2023. Its orbit is farther from its star than the habitable zone computed for it.
See AF Lep b in 3D · The picture is an artist's impression.
The star
- Surface temperature
- 6,140 K
- Width
- 1.25 × the Sun's
- Mass
- 1.218 × the Sun's
- Spectral type
- F8
- Distance
- 88 light-years
- Habitable zone, computed
- 1.298 to 2.27 au from the star