HD 215497
Orange dwarf in Tucana with two known exoplanets.
HD 215497 is a K-type main-sequence star in the southern constellation Tucana, too dim to be seen without a telescope. It hosts two known exoplanets, both less massive than Jupiter: a hot super-Earth orbiting very close and a giant planet on a highly eccentric orbit farther out.
Quick Facts
- Apparent visual magnitude
- 8.96
- Distance from sun
- 132 light years
- Spectral type
- K3V
- Mass
- 86% of the Sun's mass
- Radius
- 87% of the Sun's radius
- Effective temperature
- 5,128 K
- Age
- About ten billion years
Facts from the source article.
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