Kua'kua
LHS 3844 b
IAU name «Kua'kua» — Costa Rica, 2022 contest
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Planet
- Host star
- LHS 3844
- Distance from Earth
- 14.8846 pc (≈ 48.5 light-years)
- NASA planet type
- Super Earth
- Radius (Earth = 1)
- 1.286
- Mass (Earth = 1)
- 2.37
- Orbital period
- 0.46293 days
- Semi-major axis
- 0.00624 AU
- Eccentricity
- 0
- Equilibrium temperature
- 816 K
- Discovery method
- Transit
- Discovery year
- 2,019
- Discovery facility
- Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)
- Host spectral type
- M4.5-M5.0
- Host temperature
- 3,080 K
- Host radius (Sun = 1)
- 0.189
- Host mass (Sun = 1)
- 0.151
- Host brightness
- 15.24 mag
Source:NASA Exoplanet Archive (Caltech/IPAC) · checked 2026-11-02 ↗NASA Science · checked 2026-11-02 ↗
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Host star
In everyday life
- Light from this object takes about 49 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1977 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- Its radius is about 1.3 times Earth's (NASA Exoplanet Archive).
- One orbit takes about 11.1 hours — more than 2.2 orbits a day.
Worked out from this object's official values.