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Transit · 2014

Kepler-137 b

This world receives 86.3× the starlight Earth does; a year lasts 8.44 days; the light you see left it 988 years ago.

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Size
1.5 × Earth 
A year
8.44 days0.077 AU
Temperature
469 °C742 K

About this world

Kepler-137 b is a super-Earth orbiting Kepler-137, an orange dwarf 988 light-years from Earth. It is about 1.5 times the size of Earth. It completes an orbit every 8.44 days at 0.077 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun.

Its equilibrium temperature is about 742 K (469 °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-137 has 2 known planets; the others are Kepler-137 c.

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