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Transit · 2021

K2-336 b

This world receives 22.2× the starlight Earth does; a year lasts 21.2 days; the light you see left it 780 years ago.

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Size
1.2 × Earth 
A year
21.2 days0.143 AU
Temperature
296 °C569 K

About this world

K2-336 b is an Earth-sized planet orbiting K2-336, a yellow, Sun-like star 780 light-years from Earth. It is about 1.2 times the size of Earth. It completes an orbit every 21.2 days at 0.14 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun.

Its equilibrium temperature is about 569 K (296 °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 2021 by transit with K2. A planet crosses its star and dims it by a tiny, periodic fraction.

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