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Transit · 2019

K2-32 e

This world receives 211× the starlight Earth does; a year lasts 4.35 days; the light you see left it 514 years ago.

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Size
1.2 × Earth 
A year
4.35 days0.049 AU
Temperature
793 °C1,066 K

About this world

K2-32 e is an Earth-sized planet orbiting K2-32, a yellow, Sun-like star (type G9V) 514 light-years from Earth. It is about 1.2 times the size of Earth and holds 2.1 Earth masses. It completes an orbit every 4.35 days at 0.049 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun.

Its equilibrium temperature is about 1,066 K (793 °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 2019 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 b, K2-32 c and K2-32 d.

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