About this world
EPIC 249893012 b is a super-Earth orbiting EPIC 249893012, a yellow, Sun-like star (type G8IV/V) 1.05 thousand light-years from Earth. It is about 1.9 times the size of Earth and holds 8.8 Earth masses. It completes an orbit every 3.6 days at 0.047 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun.
Its equilibrium temperature is about 1,616 K (1,343 °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. EPIC 249893012 has 3 known planets; the others are EPIC 249893012 c and EPIC 249893012 d.