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Transit · 2022

K2-389 c

This world receives 58.5× the starlight Earth does; a year lasts 20.9 days; the light you see left it 845 years ago.

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Size
2 × Earth 
A year
20.9 days0.148 AU
Temperature
497 °C771 K

About this world

K2-389 c is a sub-Neptune orbiting K2-389, a yellow, Sun-like star (type G3) 845 light-years from Earth. It is about 2 times the size of Earth. It completes an orbit every 20.9 days at 0.15 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun.

Its equilibrium temperature is about 771 K (497 °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 2022 by transit with K2. A planet crosses its star and dims it by a tiny, periodic fraction. K2-389 has 2 known planets; the others are K2-389 b.

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