About this world
Kepler-127 d is a sub-Neptune orbiting Kepler-127, a yellow-white F-type star 1.15 thousand light-years from Earth. It is about 2.6 times the size of Earth. It completes an orbit every 48.6 days at 0.28 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun.
Its equilibrium temperature is about 590 K (317 °C): far too hot for liquid water on its surface. At its size it almost certainly keeps a deep envelope of hydrogen and helium. Its atmosphere has already been studied: 2 spectroscopic observations.
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 b and Kepler-127 c.