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Transit · 2019

EPIC 206215704 b

This world receives 13.1× the starlight Earth does; a year lasts 2.26 days; the light you see left it 358 years ago.

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Size
1 × Earth 
A year
2.26 days0.0249 AU
Temperature
257 °C530 K

About this world

EPIC 206215704 b is an Earth-sized planet orbiting EPIC 206215704, a cool red dwarf 358 light-years from Earth. It is about 1 times the size of Earth. It completes an orbit every 2.26 days at 0.025 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun.

Its equilibrium temperature is about 530 K (257 °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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