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Transit · 2016

Kepler-1126 b

This world receives 4.55× the starlight Earth does; a year lasts 109 days; the light you see left it 2.07 thousand years ago.

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Size
1.7 × Earth 
A year
109 days0.413 AU
Temperature
101 °C374 K

About this world

Kepler-1126 b is a super-Earth orbiting Kepler-1126, a yellow, Sun-like star 2.07 thousand light-years from Earth. It is about 1.7 times the size of Earth. It completes an orbit every 109 days at 0.41 AU from its star.

Its equilibrium temperature is about 374 K (101 °C): too cold for liquid water on its surface. By the "cosmic shoreline", it has likely held on to an atmosphere.

It was discovered in 2016 by transit with Kepler. A planet crosses its star and dims it by a tiny, periodic fraction. Kepler-1126 has 2 known planets; the others are Kepler-1126 c.

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