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Transit · 2022

K2-393 b

This world receives 138× the starlight Earth does; a year lasts 10.4 days; the light you see left it 867 years ago.

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Size
2.4 × Earth 
A year
10.4 days0.0895 AU
Temperature
682 °C955 K

About this world

K2-393 b is a sub-Neptune orbiting K2-393, a yellow, Sun-like star 867 light-years from Earth. It is about 2.4 times the size of Earth. It completes an orbit every 10.4 days at 0.089 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun.

Its equilibrium temperature is about 955 K (682 °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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