AU Mic d
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Planet
- Host star
- AU Mic
- Distance from Earth
- 9.7221 pc (≈ 31.7 light-years)
- NASA planet type
- Super Earth
- Radius (Earth = 1)
- 1.02
- Mass (Earth = 1)
- 1.053
- Orbital period
- 12.736 days
- Eccentricity
- 0.00305
- Discovery method
- Transit Timing Variations
- Discovery year
- 2,023
- Discovery facility
- Multiple Observatories
- Host spectral type
- M1 V
- Host temperature
- 3,678 K
- Host radius (Sun = 1)
- 0.744
- Host mass (Sun = 1)
- 0.51
- Host brightness
- 8.81 mag
Source:NASA Exoplanet Archive (Caltech/IPAC) · checked 2026-11-02 ↗NASA Science · checked 2026-11-02 ↗NASA Exoplanet Archive (Caltech/IPAC) · checked 2026-11-02 ↗
In everyday life
- Light from this object takes about 32 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1994 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- Its radius is about 1 times Earth's (NASA Exoplanet Archive).
- One orbit takes about 12.7 Earth days — that is this planet's year.
Worked out from this object's official values.