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Transit · 2016

Kepler-1049 b

This world receives 50.4× the starlight Earth does; a year lasts 3.27 days; the light you see left it 528 years ago.

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Size
0.95 × Earth 
A year
3.27 days0.0349 AU
Temperature
352 °C625 K

About this world

Kepler-1049 b is an Earth-sized planet orbiting Kepler-1049, a cool red dwarf 528 light-years from Earth. It is about 0.95 times the size of Earth. It completes an orbit every 3.27 days at 0.035 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun.

Its equilibrium temperature is about 625 K (352 °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 Kepler. A planet crosses its star and dims it by a tiny, periodic fraction.

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