PlanetHunt
PlanetHunt › Explore › K2-70 b
Transit · 2016

K2-70 b

This world receives 62× the starlight Earth does; a year lasts 14 days; the light you see left it 760 years ago.

Opens the PlanetHunt visor at this world · WebGL
Size
2.9 × Earth 
A year
14 days0.111 AU
Temperature
511 °C784 K

About this world

K2-70 b is a sub-Neptune orbiting K2-70, a yellow, Sun-like star 760 light-years from Earth. It is about 2.9 times the size of Earth. It completes an orbit every 14 days at 0.11 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun.

Its equilibrium temperature is about 784 K (511 °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 2016 by transit with K2. A planet crosses its star and dims it by a tiny, periodic fraction.

Explore more