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Transit · 2020

K2-325 b

This world receives 5.1× the starlight Earth does; a year lasts 6.93 days; the light you see left it 364 years ago.

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Size
2.2 × Earth 
A year
6.93 days0.0419 AU
Temperature
150 °C423 K

About this world

K2-325 b is a sub-Neptune orbiting K2-325, a cool red dwarf 364 light-years from Earth. It is about 2.2 times the size of Earth. It completes an orbit every 6.93 days at 0.042 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun.

Its equilibrium temperature is about 423 K (150 °C): far too hot for liquid water on its surface. By the "cosmic shoreline", it has likely held on to an atmosphere.

It was discovered in 2020 by transit with K2. A planet crosses its star and dims it by a tiny, periodic fraction.

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