★ Star Kepler-16 | Nearby stars catalogue

Binary star Kepler-16 is located 245.4 light years away from the Sun. It is a system with 2 stars. There is at least one exoplanet in this system.

Kepler-16 A

Orange star (spectral class K7V C)

Mass: 0.6897 M Sun

Size: 0.6489 R Sun

Temperature: 4450 K | 0.77 T Sun

Luminosity: 0.148 L Sun

1 exoplanet:

Kepler-16 A b

99.5 M⊕

0.7 AU

228.8 days

Photometry

K
2.1

H
1.6

J
1.2

Grp
0.8

I
0.8

G
0.6

V
0.5

Gbp
0.5

B
0.4

U
0.3

Kepler-16 B

Red dwarf (spectral class M)

Mass: 0.20255 M Sun

Size: 0.22623 R Sun

Temperature: 3311 K | 0.57 T Sun

Luminosity: 0.0057 L Sun

(No known exoplanets yet)

More about Kepler-16

      Star Kepler-16 can be found in northern celestial hemisphere.

Other designations of this star
KIC 12644769, KOI-1611, 2MASS J19161817+5145267, TIC 299096355, Gaia DR2 2133476355197071616

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Star Kepler-16

First detection of an exoplanet orbiting two stars at once with radial velocity