About this world
EPIC 206024342 b is a super-Earth orbiting EPIC 206024342, a yellow, Sun-like star 1.21 thousand light-years from Earth. It is about 1.7 times the size of Earth. It completes an orbit every 4.51 days at 0.052 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun.
Its equilibrium temperature is about 1,107 K (834 °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 2019 by transit with K2. A planet crosses its star and dims it by a tiny, periodic fraction. EPIC 206024342 has 3 known planets; the others are EPIC 206024342 c and EPIC 206024342 d.