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Transit · 2016

Kepler-1268 b

This world receives 40.7× the starlight Earth does; a year lasts 41 days; the light you see left it 6 thousand years ago.

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Size
2 × Earth 
A year
41 days0.238 AU
Temperature
354 °C627 K

About this world

Kepler-1268 b is a sub-Neptune orbiting Kepler-1268, a yellow, Sun-like star 6 thousand light-years from Earth. It is about 2 times the size of Earth. It completes an orbit every 41 days at 0.24 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun.

Its equilibrium temperature is about 627 K (354 °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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