About this world
K2-33 b is a Neptune-like planet orbiting K2-33, a cool red dwarf (type M3.3) 454 light-years from Earth. It is about 5 times the size of Earth and holds 1,176 Earth masses. It completes an orbit every 5.42 days at 0.041 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun.
Its equilibrium temperature is about 850 K (577 °C): far too hot for liquid water on its surface. At its size it almost certainly keeps a deep envelope of hydrogen and helium. Its atmosphere has already been studied: 2 spectroscopic observations, all of them with the James Webb Space Telescope.
It was discovered in 2016 by transit with K2. A planet crosses its star and dims it by a tiny, periodic fraction.