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Transit · 2016

Kepler-1236 b

This world receives 13.6× the starlight Earth does; a year lasts 31.1 days; the light you see left it 3.26 thousand years ago.

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Size
2.1 × Earth 
A year
31.1 days0.18 AU
Temperature
207 °C480 K

About this world

Kepler-1236 b is a sub-Neptune orbiting Kepler-1236, a yellow, Sun-like star 3.26 thousand light-years from Earth. It is about 2.1 times the size of Earth. It completes an orbit every 31.1 days at 0.18 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun.

Its equilibrium temperature is about 480 K (207 °C): far too hot 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.

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