K2-19
Three confirmed transiting exoplanets orbit a magnetically active star.
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K2-19 is a magnetically active early K-type or late G-type main sequence star about 976 light-years away in Virgo. Its light curve varies in brightness by roughly 1%. Three confirmed transiting exoplanets orbit closer to the star than Mercury does to the Sun.
Quick Facts
- Distance
- approximately 976 light-years
- Constellation
- Virgo
- Stellar type
- early K-type or late G-type main sequence star
- Number of confirmed planets
- 3
- Brightness variation
- ~1%
- Inner planets resonance
- close to or inside the 3:2 mean motion resonance
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Sources
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- Wikipedia: K2-19 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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