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yellow-white F-type star

Kepler-51

Kepler-51 is a yellow-white F-type star 2.56 thousand light-years from Earth, with a temperature of 6,018 K, 1 times the Sun's mass and an age of about 0.3 billion years. It has 4 known planets.

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Planets
4 
Distance
2.56 thousand light-years784 pc
Star
6,018 K0.94 R☉

About this system

The innermost, Kepler-51 b, circles it in 45.2 days; the outermost, Kepler-51 e, in 264 days. One of them lies in the habitable zone: Kepler-51 e.

Worlds of Kepler-51

NameTypeSizeA yearTemperature
Kepler-51 bNeptune-like 0.63 × Jupiter45.2 days543 K
Kepler-51 cNeptune-like 0.8 × Jupiter85.3 days439 K
Kepler-51 dNeptune-like 0.87 × Jupiter130 days381 K
Kepler-51 eSub-Neptune 2.2 × Earth264 days284 K