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yellow, Sun-like star

Kepler-256

Kepler-256 is a yellow, Sun-like star 3.35 thousand light-years from Earth, with a temperature of 5,551 K, 1 times the Sun's mass and an age of about 1.8 billion years. It has 4 known planets.

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Planets
4 
Distance
3.35 thousand light-years1,026 pc
Star
5,551 K1.3 R☉

About this system

The innermost, Kepler-256 b, circles it in 1.62 days; the outermost, Kepler-256 e, in 10.7 days.

Worlds of Kepler-256

NameTypeSizeA yearTemperature
Kepler-256 bSuper-Earth 1.6 × Earth1.62 days1,681 K
Kepler-256 cSub-Neptune 2.1 × Earth3.39 days1,315 K
Kepler-256 dSub-Neptune 2.5 × Earth5.84 days1,097 K
Kepler-256 eSub-Neptune 2.4 × Earth10.7 days897 K