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Transit · 2018

CoRoT-32 b

This world receives 132× the starlight Earth does; a year lasts 6.72 days; the light you see left it 1.88 thousand years ago.

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Size
0.57 × Jupiter 
A year
6.72 days0.071 AU
Temperature
665 °C938 K

About this world

CoRoT-32 b is a Neptune-like planet orbiting CoRoT-32, a giant star (type G0VI) 1.88 thousand light-years from Earth. It is about 0.57 times the size of Jupiter and holds 0.15 Jupiter masses. It completes an orbit every 6.72 days at 0.071 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun.

Its equilibrium temperature is about 938 K (665 °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 2018 by transit with CoRoT. A planet crosses its star and dims it by a tiny, periodic fraction.

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