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Transit · 2019

EPIC 206032309 b

This world receives 32.5× the starlight Earth does; a year lasts 2.88 days; the light you see left it 526 years ago.

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Size
1 × Earth 
A year
2.88 days0.0239 AU
Temperature
392 °C665 K

About this world

EPIC 206032309 b is an Earth-sized planet orbiting EPIC 206032309, a cool red dwarf 526 light-years from Earth. It is about 1 times the size of Earth. It completes an orbit every 2.88 days at 0.024 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun.

Its equilibrium temperature is about 665 K (392 °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.

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