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Transit · 2016

Kepler-1155 b

This world receives 32.5× the starlight Earth does; a year lasts 33.5 days; the light you see left it 3.68 thousand years ago.

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Size
2 × Earth 
A year
33.5 days0.201 AU
Temperature
336 °C609 K

About this world

Kepler-1155 b is a sub-Neptune orbiting Kepler-1155, a yellow, Sun-like star 3.68 thousand light-years from Earth. It is about 2 times the size of Earth. It completes an orbit every 33.5 days at 0.2 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun.

Its equilibrium temperature is about 609 K (336 °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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