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Transit · 2016

K2-83 b

This world receives 41.5× the starlight Earth does; a year lasts 2.75 days; the light you see left it 409 years ago.

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Size
1.2 × Earth 
A year
2.75 days0.0301 AU
Temperature
434 °C707 K

About this world

K2-83 b is an Earth-sized planet orbiting K2-83, an orange dwarf 409 light-years from Earth. It is about 1.2 times the size of Earth. It completes an orbit every 2.75 days at 0.03 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun.

Its equilibrium temperature is about 707 K (434 °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 2016 by transit with K2. A planet crosses its star and dims it by a tiny, periodic fraction. K2-83 has 2 known planets; the others are K2-83 c.

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