Kepler-56
Sign in to saveKepler-56 is a red giant in the constellation Cygnus. It is located roughly away from the solar system and has slightly more mass than the Sun.
Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- RG*
- Distance
- 3,033 light-years
- Redshift
- z = -0.0001792432854023085
- Coordinates
- RA 293.7583° · Dec 41.8719°
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Wikidata facts
- Distance from Earth
- 936.944
- Diameter
- 5890000
- Radius
- 4.23
- Mass
- 1.32
- Image
- Kepler-56 System Diagram.jpg
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- catalog code
- SPOCS 3595
- effective temperature
- 4840
- radial velocity
- -55.1
- apparent magnitude
- 12.379
- parallax
- 1.0755
- metallicity
- 0.34
- stellar rotational velocity
- 0.1
- surface gravity
- 7400
- luminosity
- 8.026871
- right ascension component of proper motion
- -6.596
- declination component of proper motion
- -12.081
- right ascension
- 293.75833832539
- declination
- 41.87185898900001
- age estimated by a dating method
- 3.5
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Kepler-56 is a red giant in the constellation Cygnus. It is located roughly away from the solar system and has slightly more mass than the Sun.
== Characteristics == Kepler-56 is a red giant star. This means it is no longer fusing hydrogen in its core and is off the main sequence. Its mass is around 1.3 M⊙. Its radius is about 4.2 R⊙, putting the star's density at about 0.025 g/cm3. For reference, the Sun's density is about 1.408 g/cm3. . Its luminosity is about 9.6 L⊙, and its effective temperature is .
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