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Transit · 2016

K2-32 c

This world receives 26.2× the starlight Earth does; a year lasts 20.7 days; the light you see left it 514 years ago.

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Size
3.1 × Earth 
A year
20.7 days0.138 AU
Temperature
361 °C634 K

About this world

K2-32 c is a sub-Neptune orbiting K2-32, a yellow, Sun-like star (type G9V) 514 light-years from Earth. It is about 3.1 times the size of Earth and holds 8.1 Earth masses. It completes an orbit every 20.7 days at 0.14 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun.

Its equilibrium temperature is about 634 K (361 °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 2016 by transit with K2. A planet crosses its star and dims it by a tiny, periodic fraction. K2-32 has 4 known planets; the others are K2-32 e, K2-32 b and K2-32 d.

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