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Transit · 2018

K2-190 b

This world receives 109× the starlight Earth does; a year lasts 10.1 days; the light you see left it 524 years ago.

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Size
1.4 × Earth 
A year
10.1 days0.0884 AU
Temperature
628 °C901 K

About this world

K2-190 b is a super-Earth orbiting K2-190, a yellow, Sun-like star 524 light-years from Earth. It is about 1.4 times the size of Earth. It completes an orbit every 10.1 days at 0.088 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun.

Its equilibrium temperature is about 901 K (628 °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 2018 by transit with K2. A planet crosses its star and dims it by a tiny, periodic fraction. K2-190 has 2 known planets; the others are K2-190 c.

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