Kepler-56
A red giant with three planets, two doomed to be engulfed.
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Kepler-56 is a red giant star in the constellation Cygnus, roughly 3,030 light-years away. It hosts a compact, dynamically stable planetary system of three confirmed planets. The system is notable because the inner two planets orbit in a plane misaligned by about 45° to the star's equator, and the star will eventually engulf them.
Quick Facts
- Distance
- roughly 3,030 ly
- Mass
- slightly more than the Sun
- Effective temperature
- 4973 K
- Number of confirmed planets
- 3
- Year inner planets discovered
- 2012
- Year third planet confirmed
- 2016
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Sources
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- Wikipedia: Kepler-56 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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