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Transit · 2014

Kepler-127 b

This world receives 159× the starlight Earth does; a year lasts 14.4 days; the light you see left it 1.15 thousand years ago.

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Size
1.4 × Earth 
A year
14.4 days0.125 AU
Temperature
611 °C884 K

About this world

Kepler-127 b is a super-Earth orbiting Kepler-127, a yellow-white F-type star 1.15 thousand light-years from Earth. It is about 1.4 times the size of Earth. It completes an orbit every 14.4 days at 0.13 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun, on a strongly elongated orbit (e = 0.47).

Its equilibrium temperature is about 884 K (611 °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 2014 by transit with Kepler. A planet crosses its star and dims it by a tiny, periodic fraction. Kepler-127 has 3 known planets; the others are Kepler-127 c and Kepler-127 d.

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