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Transit · 2016

Kepler-1221 b

This world receives 37.8× the starlight Earth does; a year lasts 12 days; the light you see left it 2.98 thousand years ago.

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Size
1.9 × Earth 
A year
12 days0.0906 AU
Temperature
359 °C632 K

About this world

Kepler-1221 b is a super-Earth orbiting Kepler-1221, an orange dwarf 2.98 thousand light-years from Earth. It is about 1.9 times the size of Earth. It completes an orbit every 12 days at 0.091 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun.

Its equilibrium temperature is about 632 K (359 °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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