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Transit · 2022

K2-366 b

This world receives 57.6× the starlight Earth does; a year lasts 15.9 days; the light you see left it 606 years ago.

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Size
2.4 × Earth 
A year
15.9 days0.116 AU
Temperature
494 °C768 K

About this world

K2-366 b is a sub-Neptune orbiting K2-366, a yellow, Sun-like star 606 light-years from Earth. It is about 2.4 times the size of Earth. It completes an orbit every 15.9 days at 0.12 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun.

Its equilibrium temperature is about 768 K (494 °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 2022 by transit with K2. A planet crosses its star and dims it by a tiny, periodic fraction.

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