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Transit · 2022

K2-395 c

This world receives 60.2× the starlight Earth does; a year lasts 8.49 days; the light you see left it 935 years ago.

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Size
3.4 × Earth 
A year
8.49 days0.0801 AU
Temperature
503 °C776 K

About this world

K2-395 c is a sub-Neptune orbiting K2-395, an orange dwarf (type K0) 935 light-years from Earth. It is about 3.4 times the size of Earth. It completes an orbit every 8.49 days at 0.08 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun.

Its equilibrium temperature is about 776 K (503 °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. K2-395 has 2 known planets; the others are K2-395 b.

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