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Transit · 2016

EPIC 211822797 b

This world receives 3.5× the starlight Earth does; a year lasts 21.2 days; the light you see left it 607 years ago.

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Size
1.9 × Earth 
A year
21.2 days0.119 AU
Temperature
158 °C431 K

About this world

EPIC 211822797 b is a super-Earth orbiting EPIC 211822797, a cool red dwarf (type M0) 607 light-years from Earth. It is about 1.9 times the size of Earth. It completes an orbit every 21.2 days at 0.12 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun.

Its equilibrium temperature is about 431 K (158 °C): far too hot for liquid water on its surface. By the "cosmic shoreline", it has likely held on to an atmosphere.

It was discovered in 2016 by transit with K2. A planet crosses its star and dims it by a tiny, periodic fraction.

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