page_title: Kepler-90f
hierarchical_section_title: Kepler-90f
caption_attribution_description: English: December 14, 2017 Kepler-90 Planets Orbit Close to Their Star https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/ames/kepler-90-planets-orbit-close-to-their-star Kepler-90 system planet orbits, compared to planetary orbits in our solar system Kepler-90 is a Sun-like star, but all of its eight planets are scrunched into the equivalent distance of Earth to the Sun. The inner planets have extremely tight orbits with a “year” on Kepler-90i lasting only 14.4 days. In comparison, Mercury’s orbit is 88 days. Consequently, Kepler-90i has an average surface temperature of 800 degrees Fahrenheit, and is not a likely place for life as we know it. The structure of the Kepler-90’s system hints that the eight planets around Kepler-90 may have formed more spread out, like the planets in our own solar system, and then somehow migrated to the orbits we see them in today.
context_page_description: Kepler-90f is an exoplanet orbiting the star Kepler-90, located in the constellation Draco. It was discovered by the Kepler telescope in October 2013. It orbits its parent star at only 0.48 astronomical units away, and at its distance it completes an orbit once every 124.91 days.
context_section_description: Kepler-90f is an exoplanet orbiting the star Kepler-90, located in the constellation Draco. It was discovered by the Kepler telescope in October 2013. It orbits its parent star at only 0.48 astronomical units away, and at its distance it completes an orbit once every 124.91 days.
caption: Illustration of the Kepler-90 system compared to the inner solar system. Kepler-90f orbits between Kepler-90e and Kepler-90g.
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