Star system, 240 light-years
Kepler-16 and its one planet
Kepler-16 b is an exoplanet 8.449 times Earth's width, about 0.8 times Jupiter's, 240 light-years away.
Kepler-16 is a star of spectral type the table does not record, 240 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.
Kepler-16 b
Kepler-16 b is an exoplanet 8.449 times Earth's width, about 0.8 times Jupiter's, 240 light-years away.
- Width
- 8.449 × Earth's measured
- Mass
- 105.833 times Earth's measured
- One year
- 228.776 days measured
- Distance from its star
- 0.7048 au from the Archive
It was found as a small, regular dip in its star's light each time it crosses in front of it in 2011. No habitable zone is computed for its star (a pulsar, a binary or a star outside the formula's range), so none is claimed.
See Kepler-16 b in 3D · The picture is an artist's impression.
The star
- Surface temperature
- 4,450 K
- Width
- 0.649 × the Sun's
- Mass
- 0.6897 × the Sun's
- Distance
- 240 light-years
- Habitable zone, computed
- 0.3991 to 0.7412 au from the star
- Stars in the system
- 2