kap And b
A confirmed exoplanet orbiting kap And.
Compared with Earth
- Size
- About 16 times Earth's width.
- Mass
- About 5,498 times Earth's mass.
- Temperature
- About 1,518 °C (2,764 °F) from starlight alone, against -18 °C (-1 °F) for Earth measured the same way.
Planet
- Radius
- 15.92 × Earth
- Mass
- 5,498 × Earth
- Density
- Unknown
- Equilibrium temperature
- 1,791 K
- Starlight received
- Unknown
- Orbital period
- Unknown
- Average distance from its star
- Unknown
Star
- Host star
- kap And
- Spectral class
- B — blue-white
- Surface temperature
- 11,330 K
- Radius
- 2.109 × Sun
- Mass
- 2.768 × Sun
- Age
- 0.047 billion years
System
- Distance from Earth
- 163.1 light-years (50.02 parsecs)
- Stars in system
- 1
- Known planets
- 1
Discovery
- Year
- 2012
- Method
- Imaging
- Facility
- Subaru Telescope
Data from the NASA Exoplanet Archive, synced October 14, 2026.