Kepler-62
Kepler-62 is a K-type main sequence star that is smaller and colder than our Sun, it is 0.660 times smaller than the Sun and 726°C colder than the Sun. It located in the constellation Lyra about 980 light years away from us. The Kepler spacecraft that NASA's Kepler Mission used as a satellite found five planets orbiting around this star, and two of them are in the habitable zone, they are called Kepler-62e and Kepler-62f.[1][2] The furthest planet from the star, called Kepler-62f, is most likely to be a rocky planet.[1]
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Borucki, William J.; et al. (18 April 2013). "Kepler-62: A Five-Planet System with Planets of 1.4 and 1.6 Earth Radii in the Habitable Zone". Science Express. 340 (6132): 587–90. arXiv:1304.7387. Bibcode:2013Sci...340..587B. doi:10.1126/science.1234702. hdl:1721.1/89668. PMID 23599262. S2CID 21029755. Retrieved 18 April 2013.
- ↑ Johnson, Michele; Harrington, J.D. (18 April 2013). "NASA's Kepler Discovers Its Smallest 'Habitable Zone' Planets to Date". NASA. Archived from the original on 8 May 2020. Retrieved 18 April 2013.