About this world
Kepler-131 b is a sub-Neptune orbiting Kepler-131, a yellow, Sun-like star 746 light-years from Earth. It is about 2.4 times the size of Earth and holds 16 Earth masses. It completes an orbit every 16.1 days at 0.13 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun.
Its equilibrium temperature is about 718 K (445 °C): far too hot for liquid water on its surface. At its size it almost certainly keeps a deep envelope of hydrogen and helium.
It was discovered in 2014 by transit with Kepler. A planet crosses its star and dims it by a tiny, periodic fraction. Kepler-131 has 2 known planets; the others are Kepler-131 c.