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Transit · 2018

K2-225 b

This world receives 121× the starlight Earth does; a year lasts 15.9 days; the light you see left it 1.17 thousand years ago.

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Size
3.6 × Earth 
A year
15.9 days0.141 AU
Temperature
650 °C923 K

About this world

K2-225 b is a sub-Neptune orbiting K2-225, a yellow, Sun-like star 1.17 thousand light-years from Earth. It is about 3.6 times the size of Earth. It completes an orbit every 15.9 days at 0.14 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun, on a strongly elongated orbit (e = 0.23).

Its equilibrium temperature is about 923 K (650 °C): far too hot for liquid water on its surface. At its size it almost certainly keeps a deep envelope of hydrogen and helium.

It was discovered in 2018 by transit with K2. A planet crosses its star and dims it by a tiny, periodic fraction.

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