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Transit · 2022

K2-382 b

This world receives 23.9× the starlight Earth does; a year lasts 21.7 days; the light you see left it 908 years ago.

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Size
2.1 × Earth 
A year
21.7 days0.148 AU
Temperature
343 °C616 K

About this world

K2-382 b is a sub-Neptune orbiting K2-382, a yellow, Sun-like star 908 light-years from Earth. It is about 2.1 times the size of Earth. It completes an orbit every 21.7 days at 0.15 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun.

Its equilibrium temperature is about 616 K (343 °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 2022 by transit with K2. A planet crosses its star and dims it by a tiny, periodic fraction.

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