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Transit · 2020

EPIC 201757695.02

This world receives 494× the starlight Earth does; a year lasts 2.05 days; the light you see left it 1.88 thousand years ago.

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Size
0.91 × Earth 
A year
2.05 days0.0296 AU
Temperature
752 °C1,025 K

About this world

EPIC 201757695.02 is an Earth-sized planet orbiting EPIC 201757695, an orange dwarf 1.88 thousand light-years from Earth. It is about 0.91 times the size of Earth. It completes an orbit every 2.05 days at 0.03 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun.

Its equilibrium temperature is about 1,025 K (752 °C): far too hot for liquid water on its surface. By the "cosmic shoreline", its star has probably stripped its atmosphere away, leaving bare rock.

It was discovered in 2020 by transit with K2. A planet crosses its star and dims it by a tiny, periodic fraction.

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