Star system, 980 light-years
Kepler-62 and its five planets
Kepler-62 f is an exoplanet 1.41 times Earth's width, 980 light-years away, orbiting in its star's computed habitable zone.
Kepler-62 is a star of spectral type K2 V, 980 light-years from us, with five known planets. This page takes them one at a time.
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.
The planets
Kepler-62 b
Kepler-62 b is an exoplanet 1.31 times Earth's width, 980 light-years away, orbiting closer to its star than the habitable zone we compute for it.
- Width
- 1.31 × Earth's measured
- Mass
- 9 times Earth's measured
- One year
- 5.71493 days measured
- Distance from its star
- 0.0553 au from the Archive
- Temperature of a bare ball there
- 733 K computed, not measured
- Starlight, against Earth's
- 68.6 × computed
It was found as a small, regular dip in its star's light each time it crosses in front of it in 2013. Its orbit is closer to its star than the habitable zone computed for it.
See Kepler-62 b in 3D · The picture is an artist's impression.
Kepler-62 c
Kepler-62 c is an exoplanet 0.54 times Earth's width, 980 light-years away, orbiting closer to its star than the habitable zone we compute for it.
- Width
- 0.54 × Earth's measured
- Mass
- 4 times Earth's measured
- One year
- 12.4417 days measured
- Distance from its star
- 0.0929 au from the Archive
- Temperature of a bare ball there
- 565 K computed, not measured
- Starlight, against Earth's
- 24.3 × computed
It was found as a small, regular dip in its star's light each time it crosses in front of it in 2013. Its orbit is closer to its star than the habitable zone computed for it.
See Kepler-62 c in 3D · The picture is an artist's impression.
Kepler-62 d
Kepler-62 d is an exoplanet 1.95 times Earth's width, 980 light-years away, orbiting closer to its star than the habitable zone we compute for it.
- Width
- 1.95 × Earth's measured
- Mass
- 14 times Earth's measured
- One year
- 18.1641 days measured
- Distance from its star
- 0.12 au from the Archive
- Temperature of a bare ball there
- 497 K computed, not measured
- Starlight, against Earth's
- 14.6 × computed
It was found as a small, regular dip in its star's light each time it crosses in front of it in 2013. Its orbit is closer to its star than the habitable zone computed for it.
See Kepler-62 d in 3D · The picture is an artist's impression.
Kepler-62 e
Kepler-62 e is an exoplanet 1.61 times Earth's width, 980 light-years away, orbiting at the edge of its star's computed habitable zone.
- Width
- 1.61 × Earth's measured
- Mass
- 36 times Earth's measured
- One year
- 122.387 days measured
- Distance from its star
- 0.427 au from the Archive
- Temperature of a bare ball there
- 264 K computed, not measured
- Starlight, against Earth's
- 1.15 × computed
It was found as a small, regular dip in its star's light each time it crosses in front of it in 2013. Its orbit lies at the edge of the conservative habitable zone computed for its star.
See Kepler-62 e in 3D · The picture is an artist's impression.
Kepler-62 f
Kepler-62 f is an exoplanet 1.41 times Earth's width, 980 light-years away, orbiting in its star's computed habitable zone.
- Width
- 1.41 × Earth's measured
- Mass
- 35 times Earth's measured
- One year
- 267.291 days measured
- Distance from its star
- 0.718 au from the Archive
- Temperature of a bare ball there
- 203 K computed, not measured
- Starlight, against Earth's
- 0.407 × computed
It was found as a small, regular dip in its star's light each time it crosses in front of it in 2013. Its orbit lies inside the conservative habitable zone computed for its star (liquid water on a rocky world's surface would be possible there, which says nothing about whether any is).
See Kepler-62 f in 3D · The picture is an artist's impression.
The star
- Surface temperature
- 4,925 K
- Width
- 0.64 × the Sun's
- Mass
- 0.69 × the Sun's
- Spectral type
- K2 V
- Distance
- 980 light-years
- Habitable zone, computed
- 0.4561 to 0.828 au from the star