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Transit · 2014

CoRoT-27 b

This world receives 301× the starlight Earth does; a year lasts 3.58 days; the light you see left it 3.3 thousand years ago.

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Size
1 × Jupiter 
A year
3.58 days0.0476 AU
Temperature
1,227 °C1,500 K

About this world

CoRoT-27 b is a gas giant orbiting CoRoT-27, a yellow, Sun-like star (type G2) 3.3 thousand light-years from Earth. It is about 1 times the size of Jupiter and holds 10 Jupiter masses. It completes an orbit every 3.58 days at 0.048 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun.

Its equilibrium temperature is about 1,500 K (1,227 °C): far too hot for liquid water on its surface. At its size it almost certainly keeps a deep envelope of hydrogen and helium.

It was discovered in 2014 by transit with CoRoT. A planet crosses its star and dims it by a tiny, periodic fraction.

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