Kepler-61 b
A confirmed exoplanet orbiting Kepler-61.
Compared with Earth
- Size
- About 2.2 times Earth's width.
- Temperature
- About 0 °C (32 °F) from starlight alone, against -18 °C (-1 °F) for Earth measured the same way.
- Year
- A year here lasts about 60 Earth days.
Planet
- Radius
- 2.15 × Earth
- Mass
- Unknown
- Density
- Unknown
- Equilibrium temperature
- 273 K
- Starlight received
- Unknown
- Orbital period
- 59.88 days
- Average distance from its star
- Unknown
Star
- Host star
- Kepler-61
- Spectral class
- K — orange dwarf
- Surface temperature
- 4,017 K
- Radius
- 0.62 × Sun
- Mass
- 0.635 × Sun
- Age
- 1 billion years
System
- Distance from Earth
- 1,093 light-years (335.1 parsecs)
- Stars in system
- 1
- Known planets
- 1
Discovery
- Year
- 2013
- Method
- Transit
- Facility
- Kepler
Data from the NASA Exoplanet Archive, synced October 14, 2026.