Exoplanet · Proxima Centauri
Proxima Centauri b
Mass1.07 Earths
Orbit11.2 days
Distance from star0.04856 AU
HostProxima Centauri
The nearest known exoplanet, orbiting the star closest to the Sun.
It orbits ~20 times closer to its star than Earth does to the Sun (0.0486 AU vs 1 AU).
Sources
- NASA Exoplanet Catalog, Proxima Centauri b
- HYG Database v4.1 (D. Nash, astronexus), CC BY-SA 4.0: stars within 20 ly, derived list
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