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Transit · 2016

Kepler-1088 b

This world receives 44.9× the starlight Earth does; a year lasts 23.1 days; the light you see left it 915 years ago.

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Size
1.4 × Earth 
A year
23.1 days0.162 AU
Temperature
394 °C667 K

About this world

Kepler-1088 b is a super-Earth orbiting Kepler-1088, a yellow, Sun-like star 915 light-years from Earth. It is about 1.4 times the size of Earth. It completes an orbit every 23.1 days at 0.16 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun.

Its equilibrium temperature is about 667 K (394 °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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